GEOGRAPHY
Where patents connect to countries
Four different questions, one at a time: where applicants and inventors are recorded as living, which office published a patent, and where it was first filed. They are never added together, and a country on this map is an address or an office in the records, not the place an invention was made.
Source record
Patents with an applicant based here.
What this measures: Patents where at least one applicant's address, as the office recorded it, is in this country. Watch out: Large groups often file through one entity, so a company's headquarters country can stand in for research done elsewhere.