Patent applicationsSiemens is European Patent Champion
With 174,317 applications, the European Patent Office reported a new record last year. The most active European company was Siemens. The last time the company led the field in Europe was in 2011.
China is one of the most important markets for energy transmission and distribution. Dr. Jilong Yao (39) has developed several devices at Corporate Technology in Beijing that embed this technology in the power supply. These include a protection device for transformers and a measuring device that transmits the values using laser optics and a modular semiconductor transformer with power electronics. The technologies he has developed are used on the global market. This shows that Siemens research in China is among the best in the world. Now the extremely versatile researcher has turned his attention to the drive train for robots. Yao was honored in the 'Talents' category.