Question: How many other countries hold more patents than Sweden?
About the article "Sweden", section "Science and technology".

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Swedish inventions are novel ideas and machines that have been pioneered in Sweden.
In the 18th century Sweden's scientific revolution took off.
Previously, technical progress had mainly come from professionals who had immigrated from mainland Europe.
In 1739, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded, with people such as Carolus Linnaeus and Anders Celsius as early members.
Sweden has a total of 33523 patents as of 2007 according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and only ten other countries have more patents than Sweden.
Although a lot of patents cannot count as inventions.
Therefore the number of patents per country is a relatively bad scale for measuring inventions that has been of progress to mankind. 
Tycho Brahe, born in 1546 in an area of present-day Sweden which was then Denmark, made the careful astronomic observations upon which Kepler proved and quantified the heliocentric Copernican solar system.
In the 18th century Sweden's scientific revolution took off.
Previously, technical progress had mainly come from mainland Europe.
In 1739, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded, with people such as Carolus Linnaeus and Anders Celsius as early members.
Many of the companies founded by early pioneers still remain major international brands.
Gustaf Dalén founded AGA, and received the Nobel Prize for his sun valve.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and instituted the Nobel Prizes.
Lars Magnus Ericsson started the company bearing his name, Ericsson, still one of the largest telecom companies in the world.
Jonas Wenström was an early pioneer in alternating current and is along with Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla credited as one of the inventors of the three-phase electrical system.
The traditional engineering industry is still a major source of Swedish inventions, but pharmaceuticals, electronics and other high-tech industries are gaining ground.
Tetra Pak was an invention for storing liquid foods, invented by Erik Wallenberg.
Losec, an ulcer medicine, was the world's best-selling drug in the 1990s and was developed by AstraZeneca.
More recently Håkan Lans invented the Automatic Identification System, a worldwide standard for shipping and civil aviation navigation.
A large portion of the Swedish economy is to this day based on the export of technical inventions, and many large multinational corporations from Sweden have their origins in the ingenuity of Swedish inventors.
Swedish inventors held 41,735 patents in the United States , according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
As a nation, only ten other countries hold more patents than Sweden.
The following is a list of other countries that hold known patents by Tesla.
The number following the country is the number of known patents in their records.
This is not an exhaustive list.
The total number may be incomplete and additional countries still may hold patents unknown. 
National patents are available in all European countries.
In some European countries, national patents are substantively examined, while in other countries there is no provision for such examination.
It can be cheaper and tactically advantageous to apply for a few national patents rather than for a European patent at the European Patent Office.
In the United Kingdom, for example, the Patents Act 1977 and the Patents Act 2004 establish the law relating to patents including filing, examination, grant, infringement, revocation, assignment.
UK law is in many ways similar to the European Patent Convention (EPC) (although the EPC deals with very few post-grant activities). 
Differences in patent numbers between the various lists are due to several reasons:  The lists were created on different dates.
As many of the inventors in the lists are still active, the number of patents they hold are increasing.
While the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the primary source for U.S. patent information, only patents issued since 1976 can be electronically searched by the inventor's name at the USPTO website.
For some of the listed inventors, such as Thomas Edison, all of their patents predate 1976, so other sources must be used.
Often entities list the worldwide total number of patents that they hold.
This is not the same as the number of inventions, as a patent in one country may be for the same invention as a patent in another country.
The set of patents covering a "single" invention in different countries is a Patent family.
The Time, USA Today and Portfolio lists show the total number of U.S. patents, including patents for designs (Design patents) as well as patents for inventions (Utility patents).
The annual lists from strutpatent.com list only those patents issued in the particular year to the inventor, not all of the inventor's patents.