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Koninklijke Philips NV

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A Dutch health technology company that makes MRI and CT scanners, ventilators, and sleep-care devices used in hospitals and homes. It began in 1891 in Eindhoven, when engineer Gerard Philips and his banker father Frederik started making carbon-filament light bulbs, naming the firm after their family. A fun quirk: until 1912 the Netherlands had no patent law, so the young company freely studied rivals' bulb designs to build its own factory.