Quantum computing patent families by company 2000-2017
The statistic shows the number of patent families in the field of quantum computing by company from 2000 to 2017, broken down into two time periods. Overall D-Wave Systems has the most quantum computing patent families from 2000 to 2017. When considering only the three most recent years (2015-2017) IBM takes the lead with 90 patent families with D-Wave Systems in second place with 71 patent families.