20/07/2022 (Agence Europe) – The number of annual space launches has risen to around 500 in recent years, leading to an increase in patent applications, the European Patent Office said, on Wednesday 20 July, in a joint report on the subject by the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI). The main European innovators come from Germany or France, or to a lesser extent from the UK, Italy, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands or...