Siemens patent applicationsInventors of the year 2016 have been announced
Siemens has now named ten particularly resourceful researchers "Inventors of the Year 2016". The scientists from Germany, Austria, the USA and Denmark are responsible for 558 registered inventions and 597 individual patents.
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Radical new approaches are rare in the development of rail vehicles. Christian Karner (43) and Radovan Seifried (42) from Siemens Mobility in Graz, together with Prof. Christian Moser (61) from Graz University of Technology, have succeeded in developing a new chassis frame that weighs just 845 kg instead of 1.5 tons. The team was named "Inventor of the Year 2016" in the "Open Innovation" category.