The professional services firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) said that 917 insurance technology-related patents were filed worlwide in 2017, that is an increase of 40% compared to the 657 patents of 2016 and 116% compared to 2013.
22% of these insurance related to pricing. Telematics, artificial intelligence [4] and machine learning also represented a significant portion.
Mark Crichard, partner at RPC underlined the importance of the insurtech [5], through technology, in the development and improvement of insurance products.