BusinessInsider has a story about IoT patent portfolios that is interesting, if you care about that sort of thing. The LexInnova research download requires an email to access their document. 😦
[…] For IoT-related patents, those that pertain to collecting and transmitting data from IoT devices are the most valuable, according to LexInnova’s analysis. Qualcomm holds a number of patents in this area for collecting and transmitting data from connected medical devices and other IoT device categories. The technologies that Qualcomm has patented in this area are used in its chipsets for connecting IoT devices to the internet over different types of networks. […]
http://www.businessinsider.com/qualcomm-has-the-most-valuable-iot-patent-portfolio-2016-5?r=UK&IR=T
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