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Classification of FinTech Patents by Machine Learning and Deep Learning Reveals Trends of FinTech Development in China

Table 6

Complete FinTech patent classification process.

Filtering and sorting stepsNumber of remaining samplesNumber of remaining samples

All patents under entries G and H filed in China from 2013 to 2020 in the databaseā€‰5398266
Remove pure technical patent data from IPC classification40725711325745
Filter nonfinancial patents via machine learning124832777418
Classify text using CNN to remove FinTech-unrelated patents5226525153
Remove patents filed abroad462420529
Number of remaining FinTech patent applications20529
FinTech patents
Individual patent applications1967
Nonindividual patent applications18562