Data on the numbers of patent applications in the field of electrical engineering filed with the European Patent Office in 2020 shows that overall, applications for electrical engineering patents amounted to over ** thousand, with the largest share of applicants from the digital communications category at **** thousand. This was followed by computer technology at roughly **** thousand and electrical machinery, apparatus, energy at ** thousand.
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