In terms of the number of privacy-calculated patents, Chinese companies still rank first in the world. As one of the standards to measure the strength of private computing enterprises, privacy computing patents are highly valued by the industry.
On March 16, IPRdaily, a global authoritative third-party intellectual property institution, and the incoPat Innovation Index Research Center jointly released the 2022 Global Privacy Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking (TOP100). According to the list, as of March 8, 2022, the top 10 companies on the list are mainly from China and the United States, of which 6 Chinese companies have been shortlisted in the top 10.
The number of privacy computing patents in China is still the highest in the world
In 2021, with the implementation of laws such as the Data Security Law and the Personal Information Protection Law, data security and personal privacy protection have become an urgent need of the industry.
Privacy computing is currently the most effective technical measure to achieve data security, personal privacy protection and data value balance. For example, privacy computing can be used as a technical means to prevent unauthorized access, reduce the leakage, alteration and loss of personal information, and also enable the processing of data without knowledge of the original data of other parties.
In the past two years, privacy computing technology has developed rapidly, and in 2021, there will be a relatively wide range of technologies. In the top ten predictions of China's ICT market released by IDC, privacy computing is listed as a just need of enterprises.
According to the IPRdaily and incoPat Innovation Index Research Center, the privacy computing technology retrieved in the list refers to a series of information technologies that analyze and calculate data under the premise of ensuring that the data provider does not leak the original data, ensuring that the data is "available and invisible, and unreadable" in the process of circulation and integration, mainly covering homomorphic encryption, multi-party secure computing, differential privacy, federated learning, trusted execution environment, zero-knowledge proof, AI privacy and other technical fields.
This reporter noted that there are eight companies in the world with a privacy calculation patent number of more than 200. The number of patents of mainland privacy computing enterprises accounted for 39%, the United States was 37%, Ant Group ranked first in the world with 1152 patents, becoming the world's first enterprise with more than 1000 privacy computing patents, and ranked first in the ranking for two consecutive years, the second to tenth in order of Ping An (423), Microsoft (374), Alibaba (313), IBM (252), Huawei (206), State Grid (206), WeBank (204), Intel（180）、Samsung（154）。
(Note: 2022 Global Privacy Computing Technology Invention Patent Ranking)
In 2021, there were only four patents with more than 200 patents, of which Ant Group ranked first with 740 patents, much higher than other companies; followed by Microsoft (305), Alibaba (299), and Ping An of China (282).
It can be found that Ping An's privacy computing patents have also risen sharply to the second place, and the number of Microsoft privacy computing patents has also risen, but it has fallen to the third place this year; in addition, in the top ten, Tencent's growth rate has been slower to fall out of the top ten, and Samsung has squeezed into the top ten.
Judging from the above data, Internet and financial giants are still the leaders of the development of privacy computing in the mainland.
Behind the "hegemonic list", China's privacy computing is accelerating
The earliest batch of private computing enterprises in mainland China was in 2017, and in only 5 years, privacy computing technology and landing applications have developed rapidly. Behind the "hegemony" of the number of patents of Chinese privacy computing enterprises for two consecutive years, it is the epitome of the accelerated development of privacy computing in the mainland, and it is also the result of the deep research of enterprises in the industry.
Take Ant Group, which has topped the list for two consecutive years, as an example, which continues to invest in research and development of privacy computing technology. From March 2021 to March 2022, the number of privacy calculation patents of Ant Group increased from 740 to 1152, an increase of more than 55% in one year. In addition, Ant Group is accelerating the layout of technical talents related to privacy computing. According to the 2023 spring recruitment announcement released by Ant Group on March 9, based on the rapid development of Ant's privacy computing technology and business, Ant Group will continue to re-acquire cutting-edge scientific and technological talents such as privacy computing and continue to increase investment in privacy computing technology talents.
In recent years, Ant Group's continuous investment in the research and development of privacy computing technology and talent training has also achieved initial results. In this year's iDASH competition, the top event of privacy computing, Ant Group won two first places in homomorphic encryption and federated learning, becoming the first Chinese team to win two firsts at the same time. The application case of ant privacy computing has also been included by many international authoritative institutions such as IDC. Ant Group has also actively participated in the joint construction of the privacy computing industry, such as the release of the "White Paper on Privacy Computing Law and Compliance" with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and the leading international authority IEEE's privacy computing integrated machine and machine learning and other international standards.
In addition, OneConnect, a subsidiary of Ping An of China, is backed by ping an group's financial advantages and has developed rapidly in the field of privacy computing combined with finance. As one Ofert, China's earliest layout of the privacy computing industry, relying on its self-developed comprehensive data service business solution - "Hive" federal intelligent privacy computing platform, it cooperates with a number of banks and financial institutions, and has rich experience in landing.
It is worth noting that in addition to the Internet and financial giants relying on their own advantages to build privacy computing in their own ecosystems, the strength of China's emerging privacy computing enterprises has also grown rapidly. According to the latest ranking in 2022, Huakong Qingjiao's ranking has risen from 41 in 2021 to 25, and the number of patents has increased from 25 to 55; the ranking of Quchain Technology has risen from 63 in 2021 to 28, and the number of patents has increased from 15 to 51; Shuqin Technology, Nebulas Clustar, Matrix Yuan, Tongdun, Qianxin, Yuntu Technology, etc. are also on the list, of which Shuqin Technology first appeared on the list in 2022, the number of patents reached 33, squeezed into the top 50, ranking 44th.
Privacy computing enterprises upstart continues to emerge, the industry potential is huge, a number of privacy computing founders told this reporter that privacy computing is a long-term development track, the current industry is in the basic stage, there is still a huge room for growth, in 2022, privacy computing whether it is a technological breakthrough, landing practice or financing will have a new breakthrough.
Editor-in-Charge: Meng Junlian Editor-in-Chief: Ran Xuedong
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