South Korea’s Samsung Electronics outran US tech giant IBM in the number of US patents at of the beginning of this year, data showed Sunday. LG Electronics ranked No. 7.Samsung held 75,596 US patents as of Jan. 1, according to the top 100 list tallied jointly by patent journal IAM and intellectual property big data analysis company ktMINE.IBM, which had maintained the top position for 25 years, ranked second at 46,4...
