Toyota leads US clean energy patents

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Japanese company registered 71 patents out of a record 798 during the third quarter of 2012

A record 798 clean energy patents were lodged in the US in the third quarter of 2012, of which auto giant Toyota was responsible for almost 10 per cent, new figures have revealed. The Japanese manufacturer's...

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