????5. 微軟

????專利數(shù)量：2829項

????代表性專利：“基于GUI的任務的自動批處理”

????國家：美國

????微軟連續(xù)第二年穩(wěn)居第五位。微軟發(fā)言人稱，為了維護一款突破型產品——運動體感設備Kinect，該公司“已提交了近600項專利申請，以保護與這款設備相關的知識產權。”我們從微軟的主要專利中，挑選出一項旨在簡化計算機重復操作的專利。例如，你可能想要調整數(shù)百張數(shù)碼照片的尺寸。這項專利可讓計算機自覺感知用戶的意圖，并自動完成這一過程——用戶不需要學習如何編寫腳本代碼。與IBM相同，這家軟件與電子產品公司的大部分專利均與電子數(shù)字數(shù)據處理即計算機相關。

????5. Microsoft

????Patents earned: 2,829

????Representative patent: "Automatic Batching of GUI-based Tasks"

????Country: United States

????Microsoft MSFT -0.14% held steady for another year in fifth place. Safeguarding one of its breakthrough products—the motion sensing Kinect—the company "has filed nearly 600 patents to protect intellectual property related to the device," says a company spokesperson. For Microsoft's featured patent, we picked one that aims to lessen the hassle of performing repetitive actions on a computer. Say, for instance, you would like to resize hundreds of digital photos. The patent outlines a way for the computer to intuit your intentions and automate the process—without you having to learn how to script a single line of code. Most of the software and electronics company's patents fall into the bucket of electrical digital data processing, a.k.a. computers—just as IBM's do.