Innovation-driven companies such as Datalogic must ensure the protection of intellectual property to guarantee the exclusivity of its inventions. The creation of a new team, dedicated to patents, allowed Datalogic to renew and further push its focus for inventions and innovation and to broaden the company’s pool of inventors, also thanks to a highly appreciated incentive program, the "Leonardo da Vinci Award". Today, Datalogic’s portfolio can count on more than 1,200 patents, registered in multiple jurisdictions, and the intellectual property gathered over the years continues to be one of Datalogic’s major assets.