Valeo are Top French Patent Applicants

Valeo has been ranked the № 1 French worldwide patent applicant, with 1,777 patents issued in one year. That’s according to France’s intellectual property institute, who list the first applications granted by the world’s main patent offices. These figures bring Valeo’s worldwide patent count to a grand total of nearly 35,000. CEO Christophe Périllat says the…

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Hector Fratty

Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.