US patent grants slow in wake of Supreme Court business methods ruling.

The article reports that there is a decrease in number of utility patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It states that grants to IT (information technology) companies have increased which has topped the patent rankings and patent grants in the business method and data processing class has decreased. It mentions that computers and electrical digital data processing class accounted for the largest share of patent grants followed by telecommunications and semiconductors.