What, Where, When and How of COVID-19 Patents Landscape: A Bibliometrics Review.

ABSTRACT: Two years after COVID-19 came into being, many technologies have been developed to bring highly promising bedside methods to help fight this epidemic disease. However, owing to viral mutation, how far the promise can be realized remains unclear. Patents might act as an additional source of information for informing research and policy and anticipating important future technology developments. A comprehensive study of 3741 COVID-19-related patents (3,543 patent families) worldwide was conducted using the Derwent Innovation database. Descriptive statistics and social network analysis were used in the patent landscape. The number of COVID-19 applications, especially those related to treatment and prevention, continued to rise, accompanied by increases in governmental and academic patent assig

SUBMITTER: Liu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9283760 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature