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Digital

Given today’s pace of digital transformation, it will come as no surprise that this is the EPO’s largest technology community.
Another defining feature here is the unique concentration of expertise relating to the cross-cutting areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer implemented inventions (CII).

Just as your daily life will likely already be touched by every one of the following fields, your specialist expertise in any of them will almost certainly always be in demand at the EPO.

  • Technical areas
     

    • electromechanics
    • electronics
    • human computer interfaces
    • computer hardware
    • image and audio-processing
    • information technology (IT)
    • IT security
    • e-commerce
    • semiconductors
    • telecommunication
    • video and wireless technologies

Check some exceptional inventors in this field:

DNA-based data storage

Live fingerprint sensors

Advances in video compression