2008-Dec-02
In fiscal 2008, Siemens increased the total number of patents it has received by 10% to 55,000. In the same period, the company’s 32,500 R&D employees filed some 8,200 invention disclosures, corresponding to 37 inventions per working day. These invention disclosures subsequently generated 5,000 patent applications. On December 1, 2008, Peter Löscher, CEO of Siemens AG, honored twelve outstanding employees as “Inventors of the Year” in Munich. The award winners are responsible for a total of around 800 patents. Their research covers the full range of the company’s business activities, with efficient power generation and environment protection as one of the main topics – six of the twelve inventors work in these fields.