Bengaluru, April 26 -- April 26:India continues to maintain its 5th position in the overall global patent filings and over 86,000 AI-related patents were filed between 2010 and 2025, accounting for more than 25 per cent of all technology patents in the country, a Nasscom report said on Friday.

The pace of innovation has accelerated dramatically, with the number of AI patents filed between 2021 and 2025 being seven times higher than those filed between 2010 and 2015. Notably, 63 per cent of these AI patents originated in India, while 17 per cent were first filed in the United States.

Machine Learning (ML) remains the most widely used technique within AI patents, comprising over 55 per cent of the total AI filings. Within this, Generative...