中国企业在欧创新愈加活跃　　Chinese companies and inventors filed a record high of 19,041 patent applicati** at the European Patent Office (EPO), up 15.1%, the highest among the 20 major patent filing countries, according to the Patent Index 2022 revealed by EPO recently.　　According to the report, the office received 193,460 applicati** in 2022, up 2.5% from the previous year. The top five applicant countries are the United States, Germany, Japan, China and France, with China (15.1%) and the United States (2.