Samsung Leads Patent Filings For Wearable Technology

Samsung was the first major technology company to release a smartwatch back in 2013 and since then the company has launched multiple wearable devices even though they’ve not quite taken off the way Samsung would have wanted them to. The company is also working on a new smartwatch called Orbis which is likely to be unveiled alongside the Galaxy Note 5 this September. A new report finds that over the past few years Samsung has led every single company on patent filings for wearable technology.

The report from Lux Research finds that Samsung has been working very hard on research and development efforts for wearable technology and it is quickly patenting its creations, which is why it’s now the biggest patent filer as far as wearable technologies go.

Between 2010 and May 2015 41,301 patents were filed on wearable technology and Samsung accounted for 4 percent of all patents. Qualcomm came in second place with 3% of patents and Apple followed in third with 2.2 percent. The most number of patents have been filed by independent creators who account for 77 percent of these patents.

The report further finds that Samsung’s focus is primarily on health related aspects of wearable technologies as 25 percent of its wearable patents have to do with health.

It goes without saying that Samsung is not giving up on the wearable device market and plans to see it through, hoping to establish itself as a dominant force in this particular market.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Gadgets
Tags: Orbis, Samsung, Wearable Tech