Analog Devices Wins Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators Award for Third Consecutive Year
October 28, 2013 – Analog Devices (www.analog.com, NASDAQ: ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, announced that it has been selected as one of the world's leading innovative companies in the Thomson Reuters 2013 Top 100 Global InnovatorSM program. The Thomson Reuters Awards Program identifies companies and organizations that lead global innovation using proprietary data and analytics tools. Analog Devices has been honored to receive this prestigious award for the third consecutive year. Emre Onder, Vice President of Analog Devices, stated, "Our commitment to driving groundbreaking innovation has been the foundation of Analog Devices' success and has established our recognition as a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications," and added, "Innovation is in Analog Devices' DNA, and we will continue to do our best to work with the world's leading companies to pioneering develop new products, technologies, and solutions."
The Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators Award is evaluated based on patent data and related indicators. The four key criteria include the number of innovative patents held, patent approval success rate, global applicability of patents, and patent impact. This report carefully investigated how successful companies are securing patents, what significant influence those patents have had on subsequent inventions, and whether those patents are protected globally.
In announcing the 2013 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators list, Thomson Reuters stated that the award-winning companies "represent pioneers of 21st century innovation, and these companies and research institutions clearly recognize that no matter how excellent an idea is, by itself it only comprises half of the strategic formula," and explained, "The remaining essential component of the strategic formula is protecting that great idea through intellectual property, commercializing it, and having global impact to maximize the potential that the idea can achieve."
The full report on the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators Program can be found at http://top100innovators.com/.


















