Analog Devices named among the world’s most innovative companies

The Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovator methodology is based on four principle criteria: overall patent volume, patent application-to-grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent influence as evidenced by citations. This objective formula identifies the companies around the world that are discovering new inventions, commercialising them and protecting them from infringers.

“Impactful innovation has been the hallmark of Analog Devices’ success for the past 50 years and guides every step of our customer engagement,” said Peter Real, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Analog Devices. “We are honored to be selected yet again by Thomson Reuters for solving our customers’ toughest problems, enabling important new discoveries and intelligently bridging the physical and digital worlds with technologies that sense, measure and connect.”

In announcing the 2015 Top 100 global innovators listing, Thomson Reuters stated that the award winners “are a creative and successful group” that combined generated more than $429 trillion in revenue and invested more than $20 trillion in R&D in 2014. “They are the organisations leading us into the future, by innovating, protecting their inventions with IP rights and commercialising them. Without them, our world would be a very different place.”