INSIGHT 01Fact
79%
79% of applications are in Computer technology
2,548 applications in this field, 2,203 of them in IPC G06F (Data processing) — the main axis of the portfolio.
Method: Field applications ÷ applications with IPC
Company patentsBanking and financial technology
COMPANY PATENT INTELLIGENCE
ICBC Patent Portfolio Analysis
Explore financial-service digitisation and data-system publications attributed to ICBC.
Partial name or date coverage · counts are lower boundsData as of 2026-10-29Data scope
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Source search matches
- 3,242
- Published 2025-01-01 — 2025-12-31 · Source Google Patents
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
- Publication dates collected
- Not recorded in this snapshot
- Reviewed names not covered
- INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED · 中国工商银行股份有限公司
≥3,242docs
270 per month · peak 2025-03 (497)
Empty dashed outlines are uncollected periods, not zero. Dashed bars have partial name or date coverage.
01Key figures
- Applications
- 3,242
- By application number; publication and grant count once
- Invention
- 3,235
- 100% of applications
- Utility model
- 7
- 0.2% of applications
- Patent families
- 3,242
- By the source family ID
- Green technology
- —
- The source has no CPC codes
- Concentration
- 0.81HHI
- Sum of squared field shares; higher is more concentrated
INSIGHT 02Fact
0.2%
Utility models are 0.2%
7 utility models and 3,235 inventions. Structural and tooling improvements are often protected faster as utility models.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
02Technology landscape
3,242 applications with IPC codes are mapped to 35 fields using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance; area is the number of applications. Select a tile to see its IPC subclasses. An application can belong to several fields.
- Electrical engineering
- Instruments
- Mechanical engineering
- Other fields
03Rhythm
Publications per month in each field; brighter cells mean more. It shows which directions surge in particular months.
This chart covers collected documents published from 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31. Examination and publication processes affect this timing; it does not directly measure R&D investment in the same period.
| Technology field | 25-01 | 25-02 | 25-03 | 25-04 | 25-05 | 25-06 | 25-07 | 25-08 | 25-09 | 25-10 | 25-11 | 25-12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer technology | 104 | 50 | 414 | 423 | 167 | 58 | 56 | 74 | 288 | 220 | 342 | 352 |
| IT methods for management | 75 | 37 | 191 | 229 | 87 | 25 | 38 | 42 | 138 | 114 | 177 | 186 |
| Digital communication | 22 | 9 | 69 | 50 | 48 | 9 | 22 | 45 | 66 | 40 | 68 | 58 |
| Control | 3 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| Audio-visual technology | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Telecommunications | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Measurement | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Handling | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Filing years of the collected applications
Documents in the current publication window are deduplicated by application number and grouped by filing year. These are not the company's complete annual filings; older applications may only be published or granted within this window.
- 20211
- 2023144
- 20241,240
- 20251,857Publication lag may still apply
Invention applications are generally published about 18 months after filing, or priority where claimed, and may be published earlier. Flags are estimated as of 2026-10-29. An unflagged year is still not necessarily complete; these counts cannot establish growth or contraction in R&D.
Multi-year evolution · With a longer collection window, this becomes a yearly view that marks the fastest-growing and shrinking fields.
04Strategy profile
Four reproducible structural ratios, with the other published companies on the same scale. Entity scopes and windows can differ, so read relative positions only — this is not a ranking.
Concentration
0.810.000.94
Position 1 of 20 published companies.
Method: Sum of squared field shares
Utility model share
0.2%0%33%
Position 6 of 20 published companies.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
Green technology share
—The source has no CPC codes, so this cannot be computed.
Method: Documents with CPC Y02 ÷ documents with CPC
Manufacturing and inspection share
0.6%0%50%
Position 17 of 20 published companies.
Method: Applications in measurement, chemical engineering, handling and machine tools ÷ all applications
05Collaboration
Organisations that filed jointly with the collected entities; line weight represents joint applications. Name-based candidates and reviewed relationships are labeled separately. Co-applications alone do not prove ownership.
ICBC TECH CO LTD120Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
Possible affiliation is a review lead only. Co-applicants without a review record are not automatically group members or external partners, and their independent filings are not added to these statistics.
Review the entity list06Entities and scope
Entity review and data coverage are separate facts. This list shows the current entity configuration, evidence and relationship dates, matched name by name against this snapshot.
Filters change only the entity list below, not the statistics. A complete group snapshot is not available to switch to on this page.
Showing 1 of 1 entities
中国工商银行股份有限公司
Primary entityVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
- Names outside this snapshot
- 中国工商银行股份有限公司 · Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
2025官方年报与原始中文申请人对应；工银科技等共同申请人保持独立。
Review evidenceRelationship dates help interpret renaming, acquisitions and joint ventures. Missing dates do not establish an indefinite relationship or verify the current patent owner.
07Publication jurisdictions
1 publication offices · 3,242 documents
Counts use the publication office of each collected document, retaining publications from the same family in different jurisdictions. This is not a map of complete families, granted or active rights; WO and EP denote international and European publication routes.
- CNChina3,242
08Documents
3,242 published documentsNewest first
- CN121233465A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Component change-based test method, device, equipment, medium and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121233669A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Financial business processing method and device for heterogeneous database switching
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121235696A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Compliance verification method and device for transaction service, electronic equipment and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technologyIT methods for management
- CN121235786A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Product recommendation method and device, electronic equipment and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technologyIT methods for management
- CN121235804A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Financial business curve generation method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD / ICBC TECH CO LTD
Computer technologyIT methods for management
- CN121235806A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Credit card application processing method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technologyIT methods for management
- CN121236772A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Banknote serial number identification method and device, storage medium and electronic equipment
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121239447A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Network request processing method, device, equipment, medium and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Digital communicationComputer technology
- CN121239635A
Invention publication
2025-12-30Application programming interface calling method, device, equipment, storage medium and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD / ICBC TECH CO LTD
Digital communication
- CN121210099A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Expansion and contraction method, device, equipment, medium and product of computing power resource
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121210215A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Disaster recovery environment determining method and device, storage medium and electronic equipment
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121210312A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Code testing method, device, equipment, storage medium and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD / ICBC TECH CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121210656A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Mail classification method, model training method, device, equipment, medium and product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Digital communicationComputer technology
- CN121212138A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Sensitive information identification method, model training method, device and equipment
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD / ICBC TECH CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121212785A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Method, device, equipment and storage medium for determining business risk level
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD / ICBC TECH CO LTD
Computer technologyIT methods for management
- CN121217493A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Method, device, equipment, medium and program product for determining consensus node
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Digital communication
- CN121187632A
Invention publication
2025-12-23Webpage automatic configuration method, device, equipment, storage medium and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121187782A
Invention publication
2025-12-23Test resource allocation method and device based on neural network model and electronic equipment
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD / ICBC TECH CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121187830A
Invention publication
2025-12-23Database restoration method, apparatus, device, storage medium and program product
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD / ICBC TECH CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN121187858A
Invention publication
2025-12-23Method and device for processing information
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Computer technologyIT methods for management
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09Method and sources
Counting units
Publications are deduplicated by publication number; applications by application number, so a publication and its grant count once; families by the source family ID. Technology fields are derived automatically from IPC codes using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance (March 2026), without manual or AI labeling.
Publication or grant documents do not establish current rights. Check legal status and current owners with the relevant patent office.
Entity scope
These statistics use only the applicant names and publication dates collected for this snapshot. They do not represent the full company or group portfolio.
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
- Reviewed names not covered
- INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED · 中国工商银行股份有限公司
Current entity configuration and review evidence
The reviewed entities and aliases below describe the current company configuration. Only names listed above are covered by this snapshot.
中国工商银行股份有限公司
Configured aliases: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited · INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA CO LTD
Original review note: 2025官方年报与原始中文申请人对应；工银科技等共同申请人保持独立。
Review evidenceData sources
- Google Patents · PartialPublished 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · retrieved 2026-10-29 · 3,242 included · 0 out of scopeSource and terms
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