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Mitsubishi Electric Named to Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2025Thirteenth year of recognition as a Top 100 Global Innovator for outstanding intellectual property

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TOKYO, March 13, 2025 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has been recognized as one of the Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2025 by Clarivate Plc, a global information services company based in the United Kingdom. Mitsubishi Electric's achievements in the field of intellectual property (IP) continue to be highly recognized, as evidenced by being named a Global Innovator for the 13th time. The company was ranked in 13th place overall this year.
The award, which was established in 2012, is based on patent-related data collected by Clarivate. Candidates are companies and organizations that have filed at least 500 patent applications since 2000 and have more than 100 inventions registered as patents in the five-year period between 2019 and 2023. Four criteria - influence, success rate, geographic investment and rarity - are evaluated to select and honor the top 100 companies worldwide each year.
Mitsubishi Electric, which strategically positions IP as a crucial business resource for its future growth and development, carefully aligns IP activities with the company's business and R&D strategies. In October 2021, the company launched Open Technology Bank^® activities to promote external collaboration aimed at realizing a sustainable future by leveraging IP.
Going forward, Mitsubishi Electric will continue strengthening its IP activities to address social challenges and deliver new value towards sustainability through its business. For more information, please visit https://www.MitsubishiElectric.com/en/about/rd/ip/
Yasushi Sogabe, Corporate Executive, Senior General Manager of the Corporate Intellectual Property Division, said: "We are honored to be recognized again this year. Mitsubishi Electric is integrating IP activities with business and development strategies to obtain higher-quality IP rights worldwide, in addition to collaborating on standardization activities. Furthermore, we have been engaged in external collaborative activities utilizing our IP rights since fiscal 2021. Going forward, we will continue to promote IP activities that contribute to solving challenges in the modern world."