ZKW are a top patent applicant in Lower Austria; 61 of the 224 applications in 2022 from Lower Austria to the European Patent Office came from the ZKW Group. Among ZKW’s many innovations is a display with controllable foils to display pictograms as well as being used for large-area lighting. The newly developed and patent-pending…
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.