MIT Technology Review Patent Scorecard: Delphi is No. 1 Again
Delphi is leading creator of automotive technology patents for 2003
TROY, Mich., April 21 -- Delphi Corp. ranks No. 1 in automotive technological strength for the second straight year, according to an annual industry study by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation.
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In its study of 111 automotive companies, editors of MIT's Technology Review Magazine found Delphi to have the strongest intellectual-property power. Editors determined the ranking by looking at several factors, including patent productivity and the documented influence of Delphi's recent technologies on other inventors.
"We're proud to be recognized once again by Technology Review as having a profound influence on the automotive industry," said Donald L. Runkle, vice chairman, Enterprise Technologies, and chief technology officer, Delphi. "We spend about $2 billion each year and have more than 16,000 engineers, scientists and technicians dedicated to research, development, and engineering initiatives, and we're all working together to change the driving experience."
Delphi is developing advanced technologies and products in broad areas, including electronics, safety, audio, powertrain emission and efficiency, vehicle dynamics, vehicle architectures, thermal systems, and more, Runkle said.
Technology Review's "Patent Scorecard" is published in the magazine's May issue.
The Patent Scorecard is an industry-by-industry ranking of corporate patent portfolios and combines the number of patents a company receives with other indicators to arrive at its technological strength and ranking. Technology Review's 2004 Patent Scorecard tracked the U.S. patent portfolios of more than 750 of the world's top technology companies, of which 111 were in the automotive industry.
The categories reported in the study include:
Technological Strength: A figure calculated by multiplying the number of a company's U.S. patents by its current-impact index*;
Number of Patents: The number of U.S. patents awarded, excluding design and other special-case inventions; Delphi received 651 U.S. patents in 2003.
*Current-Impact Index: A measure showcasing the broader significance of a company's patents by examining how often its U.S. patents from the past 5 years are cited as prior art in the current year's batch. Delphi's ranking of 1.19 indicates that its patents were cited 19 percent more often than the average.
Science Linkage: The average number of scientific references listed in a company's U.S. patents.
Technology Cycle Time: The median age (in years) of the U.S. patents cited as prior art in the company's patents.
For more information about Delphi Corporation, visit http://www.delphi.com/media .
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