Review of Patents Issued to Computer Architecture Companies in 2021 [Micro Law]

This two-part article takes a break from my series on the Analysis of Historical Patenting Behavior and Patent Characteristics of Computer Architecture Companies in order to analyze the patents that were issued to 18 computer architecture companies in 2021. Part III of the series will return in the July/August issue of IEEE Micro. This two-part article first examines the number of total patents and the number of computer architecture patents that were issued to each company in 2021. Second, it compares the distribution of those patents across different patent classes. Third, it highlights one patent from each company that may be particularly notable.