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Siemens 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'.
"Innovations are not only the result of great ideas, but also of great implementation strength," says Roland Busch, CTO at Siemens. "All of our 14 inventors are role models for this. They have passionately pursued their ideas and are successful on the market with their technologies." Since 1995, Siemens has presented the award annually to outstanding researchers and developers at the company whose inventions have made a significant contribution to the company's success. Since 2016, the award has also been presented to researchers outside the company.
The 14 scientists are responsible for around 1,300 inventions and 920 individual patents granted. Nine of them come from Germany, two from Austria, one from Denmark and two from the USA. Their inventions range from a solution for future digital power grids to technologies that improve medical examinations and pantographs that enable conventional trucks to drive purely electrically.
Siemens holds around 63,000 granted patents worldwide. Siemens employees filed around 7450 invention disclosures in fiscal year 2017. Based on 220 working days, that's around 34 inventions per day.
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