Patent application volume, patent approval success rate,
Four key criteria including global patent applicability and patent impact

Analog Devices was selected as one of the world's top innovative companies in the 2015 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators program . The Thomson Reuters Awards program selects companies and organizations that lead innovation by utilizing proprietary data and analytics tools . With this year's award, Analog Devices has had the honor of being selected as an innovative company a total of four times over the past five years .

Peter Real, Senior Vice President and CTO of Analog Devices, stated, “Innovation has been the symbol of Analog Devices’ success over the past 50 years and has been the faithful driving force behind our collaboration with all our customers,” and added, “We are deeply honored to receive this award from Thomson Reuters again this year, thanks to Analog Devices’ role as a bridge digitizing analog signals based on the world’s most advanced technologies in sensing, measurement, and networking, while solving the greatest technical challenges our customers face and enabling new discoveries.”


The Thomson Reuters World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies are evaluated based on a close examination of four key criteria: total patent application volume, patent approval success rate, global application of patents, and patent impact. Objective criteria, such as achieving new inventions and innovations, commercializing them, and protecting those patents from illegal misappropriation, serve as indicators for selecting the world’s top 100 companies.

Thomson Reuters stated that the companies awarded the World's Top 100 Innovators this year are the most “creative and successful companies,” noting that the combined total revenue of these companies in 2014 exceeds $429 trillion and the total amount invested in R&D by these companies exceeds $20 trillion. In addition, Thomson Reuters introduced this year's award winners as “pioneers of innovation who lead the future by driving innovation, protecting their innovative inventions with intellectual property rights, and commercializing them,” and added, “Without these companies, the world would look completely different from what it is today.”