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The aim, for the company or laboratory, is to lay the foundations for systematic innovation based on its skills, either by using existing royalty-free work, or by improving existing systems or applications (incremental innovation).
To find out about the various techniques and recent advances in the field of welding apparatus and methods, a search of the worldwide patent database from 2011 to 2012 (welding AND apparatus in the patent title) provides access to several hundred patents. Automatic analysis of significant expressions present in titles and abstracts leads to the detection of the most recent welding devices and methods, followed by the most important players, fields of application, and so on.
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