Inventors of the year 2006
2006-Dec-04
Siemens employs nearly 50,000 people in research and development. Last year invention applications at the company rose by 17 percent and the number of patent applications filed by 8 percent. Siemens ranks No. 1 in the patent statistics in Germany, No. 2 at the European Patent Office, and is in the Top 10 in the U.S. Each year Siemens presents the Inventor of the Year award to its twelve most successful researchers. The inventions honored by Hermann Requardt, member of the Siemens AG Corporate Executive Committee and head of Corporate Technology, this year include multifunctional radio antennas for cars, a navigation system that guides surgeons through the human body and a cus-tomer-friendly graphical display technique for automation.
