{"id":158228,"date":"2026-10-01T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158228"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:00:24","slug":"china-leads-drone-patent-volume-but-us-matches-quality-as-start-ups-drive-innovation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158228","title":{"rendered":"China leads drone patent volume but US matches quality as start-ups drive innovation: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese and US firms are \u201cneck-and-neck\u201d in the quality battle for the next generation of drone patents, despite China having a lead in volume, a study published on Thursday shows.<br \/>\nChinese companies accounted for 44 per cent of the world\u2019s drone patent filings in 2024, against 17 per cent for American firms, according to a report published by LexisNexis. Measured by value, however, US drone patents were on a par with China\u2019s, leaving the two countries roughly even in total global patent asset&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3369466\/china-leads-drone-patent-volume-us-matches-quality-start-ups-drive-innovation-study?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese and US firms are \u201cneck-and-neck\u201d in the quality battle for the next generation of drone patents, despite China having a lead in volume,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}