Patent applicationsSiemens names 'Inventor of the Year 2017'
Siemens filed 3,650 patents in the 2017 fiscal year - 150 more than in the previous year. The company has now named 14 particularly resourceful researchers as 'Inventors of the Year 2017'.
Digital twins are the field of research of Dr. Arquimedes Canedo (36) from Siemens Corporate Technology in Princeton, New Jersey (USA). The digital twin of a product offers many advantages in automation and control: it accompanies its life cycle in virtual form from the initial idea through production to maintenance and sometimes even to disposal, ensuring greater efficiency at all levels. A "digital graph" invented by Arquimedes Canedo automatically links various digital twins with each other. For this, Canedo was awarded Inventor of the Year in the "Talent" category.