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Indicator : Nanotechnology patents in USPTO (Patent)
Description : The indicator shows the number of nanotechnology granted patents in USPTO. According to ISO/TS 18110 (First Edition 2015-08-15), the definition of nanotechnology patents is “patents that include at least one claim related to nanotechnology or patents classified with an IPC classification code related to nanotechnology such as B82.
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Nanotechnology patents in USPTO (Patent)

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 [Sep]
World 1,328 1,499 1,881 2,052 1,957 2,523 2,562 2,691 3,119 4,476 4,748 5,342 6,354 8,681 8,588 8,484 9,145 8,493 9,515 9,561 9,705 9,286 9,426 10,252 8,035
1 USA 885 996 1,245 1,355 1,259 1,656 1,678 1,681 1,905 2,564 2,698 3,041 3,615 4,414 4,365 4,316 4,725 4,343 4,837 4,913 4,889 4,366 4,552 4,501 3,512
2 South Korea 19 29 48 69 66 93 113 184 240 391 448 430 501 667 839 914 1,044 887 931 941 826 846 952 1,169 902
3 China 2 1 7 10 13 25 20 35 60 98 136 225 270 357 393 416 524 520 746 736 824 1,000 877 1,112 846
4 Taiwan 26 39 36 61 67 109 114 142 188 271 308 407 425 551 500 514 490 427 505 513 556 604 655 739 647
5 Japan 159 163 230 241 250 267 247 280 350 521 469 526 587 889 902 819 733 640 707 661 666 691 594 713 589
6 Saudi Arabia 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 12 25 32 53 48 92 162 176 168 226 253 319 372 252
7 Germany 55 79 86 99 84 110 106 92 113 200 203 205 248 496 307 301 378 309 348 310 274 261 225 283 226
8 France 68 63 59 40 58 49 64 59 50 108 142 140 176 347 242 210 235 236 233 214 209 210 167 164 161
9 Canada 21 21 35 38 40 52 27 40 36 56 81 82 85 127 109 106 119 115 145 151 146 165 176 170 139
10 UK 17 21 18 34 17 23 23 19 25 30 49 60 87 145 109 123 144 133 149 154 175 133 126 192 129
11 Switzerland 10 9 15 7 11 14 15 19 14 34 46 48 61 126 64 79 89 85 87 92 105 93 81 106 83
12 Netherlands 7 17 25 13 30 36 50 55 53 93 72 103 115 155 156 136 122 101 86 96 123 102 90 95 76
13 Finland 4 3 0 3 4 7 5 4 7 10 11 17 28 37 37 46 48 34 65 60 45 55 49 54 49
14 Italy 7 11 7 11 8 17 8 22 15 28 33 24 43 77 41 47 33 47 56 65 46 48 44 56 47
15 Singapore 2 10 7 6 9 7 19 19 18 20 22 27 37 51 65 56 66 70 78 68 58 48 41 51 41
16 India 5 8 4 12 2 6 7 7 6 7 4 11 32 55 50 52 65 63 60 42 41 52 36 39 36
17 Australia 7 8 10 16 9 28 33 22 41 36 39 17 28 28 19 22 39 37 37 39 47 34 49 40 35
18 Belgium 9 3 8 10 9 8 7 8 12 16 22 23 29 47 45 42 47 46 42 49 55 48 50 37 31
19 Spain 0 2 1 1 2 2 2 5 3 6 4 9 13 32 27 30 35 24 33 24 33 40 27 25 28
20 UAE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 1 4 3 6 5 12 9 14 19 27
21 Ireland 5 1 5 4 7 3 8 8 8 9 6 18 9 22 14 10 14 15 21 28 30 32 36 36 24
22 Sweden 11 6 8 4 11 7 9 10 8 25 26 35 25 65 57 40 39 43 43 36 34 39 30 35 22
23 Denmark 1 4 2 2 2 2 4 6 3 10 12 8 6 21 18 12 8 19 21 13 12 28 17 14 16
24 Austria 3 3 2 3 4 6 4 1 2 4 4 7 13 24 16 12 15 18 25 23 41 26 13 17 14
25 Turkey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 5 5 10 6 8 10 13 10 4 12 11 13
26 Norway 0 1 3 0 2 1 1 1 0 3 2 5 3 7 4 7 11 9 10 15 8 14 8 9 10
27 Poland 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 8 4 10 9 7 12 5 3 8 14 10
28 Luxembourg 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 7 5 7 13 7 11 10 16 15 11 16 10 10 9
29 Brazil 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 3 3 4 12 8 9 14 9 14 10 6 6 8 7 7
30 Iran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 11 8 12 10 13 18 16 37 21 23 8 10 6
31 Kuwait 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 4 1 0 2 3 0 5 6
32 Czech Republic 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 4 11 4 7 1 9 3 7 5 3 6 5 6
33 Mexico 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 3 2 5 8 7 4 15 11 4 8 6 3 6 1 5
34 Bulgaria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
35 Qatar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 4 1 6 8 4 7 4
36 Estonia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 3
37 Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 2 1 3 4 3 2 2 5 3
38 Croatia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
39 New Zealand 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 3 0 2 3 3 8 4 2 9 4 8 5 8 3
40 Malaysia 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 4 5 5 3 4 2 8 0 1 2 3 2
41 Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 4 5 4 0 4 4 1 5 5 4 2
42 Greece 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 2 3 1 0 1 1 3 0 7 6 2 4 2
43 South Africa 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 3 3 1 8 3 4 6 5 3 2 7 3 2 2 5 2
44 Cuba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2
45 Chile 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 2 1 4 0 2 2 6 5 5 6 2
46 Slovenia 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 3 2 2 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 2
47 Cyprus 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 2 0 4 0 2 0 2 1 1 2
48 Lithuania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 2
49 Russia 2 1 3 4 2 1 4 5 3 4 8 4 4 11 8 12 7 1 4 7 9 9 2 1 2
50 Pakistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 1
51 Egypt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 3 3 5 2 2 1 2 1 1 1
52 Liechtenstein 0 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 3 7 1 4 3 0 1 3 5 2 2 3 1
53 Thailand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 3 2 1 3 1
54 Vietnam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 2 3 3 6 1
55 Hungary 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 2 2 2 3 0 2 3 1 0 1 2 1 1
56 Jordan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
57 Uruguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
58 Serbia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
59 Slovakia 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1
60 Bangladesh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
61 Latvia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
62 Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 0 1 0 0 0
63 Morocco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 0
64 Paraguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
65 North Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
66 Panama 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
67 Costa rica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0
68 Iceland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
69 Venezuela 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
70 Azerbaijan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
71 Ukraine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 1 2 0 3 0 0 1 0
72 Belarus 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
73 Kazakhstan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
74 Peru 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
75 Georgia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
76 Argentina 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 0
77 Algeria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
78 Oman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
79 Angola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
80 Nigeria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
81 Lebanon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
82 Romania 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 0

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