IEEE Dominates U.S. Tech Patent Citations
A new study that examined filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the 50 top-patenting companies cited IEEE nearly three times more than any other technical-literature publisher including ACM, Elsevier, and Springer. The organizations with the highest number of patents granted—including Amazon, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, and TSMC—referenced IEEE journals, standards, and…