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On July 2nd, 2026, the prestigious European Inventor Awards will be conferred upon inventors competing in one of four categories: Industry, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Research, and Non-members of the European Patent Organization. This year, the ceremony will take place in Berlin, Germany.
Below, the list of the 12 finalists and their competing inventions, in each of the four categories.
Industry
• Giuseppe Crippa†, Roberto Crippa, Stefano Felici, Riccardo Vettori, Raffaele Vallauri, Flavio Maggioni and team (Italy).
Invention: Probe card advancements for testing microchips.
Sample patents
EP2984492B1 - Testing head of electronic devices.
• Giuseppe Crippa†, Roberto Crippa, Stefano Felici, Riccardo Vettori, Raffaele Vallauri, Flavio Maggioni and team (Italy).
Invention: Probe card advancements for testing microchips.
Sample patents
EP2984492B1 - Testing head of electronic devices.
EP3794357B1 - High-performance probe card in high-frequency.
EP3707519B1 - Contact probe for a testing head for testing high-frequency devices.
EP3707519B1 - Contact probe for a testing head for testing high-frequency devices.
• Evangelos Eleftheriou and team (Switzerland/Greece).
Invention: Improvements to the stability and reliability of digital data storage.
Sample patents
EP2277173B1 - Error correction coding of longitudinal position information.
EP2513798B1 - Reducing access contention in flash-based memory systems.
EP2260491B1 - Error correction capability for longitudinal position data in a tape storage system.
• Angeliki Triantafyllou (Greece/Sweden)
Invention: Improved enzymatic process to prepare tasty oat drinks with a creamy mouthfeel, for the lactose-intolerant and as an alternative to the high energy footprint of dairy milk production.
Sample patent
EP2953482B1 – Liquid oat base.
Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• Jan Čmelík and team (Czech Republic).
Invention: Electrospinning of nanofibers to scale the reliable manufacture of nanofibers used for various industrial and medical applications.
Sample patents
EP2291555B1 - Method and device for spinning of polymer composition in electrostatic field.
EP2732079B1 - Method for application of liquid polymeric material onto spinning cords and a device for production of nanofibers through electrostatic spinning.
• Przemek Ben Paczek and team (Poland).
Invention: Magnetic propulsion retrofitting technology to upgrade rails.
Sample patents
EP3841249B1 - Magnetic levitation railway system.
EP3938577B1 - Vacuum tube railway system.
• Franck Zal (France)
Invention: Captured the oxygen-carrying molecule M101 in marine worm hemoglobin for the preservation of transplant organs and other medical therapeutic uses.
Sample patent
EP3008166B1 - Sand worm lyophilisate and uses thereof.
EP2748306B1 - Use of annelid hemoglobin for maintaining stem cells in the undifferentiated state.
EP2184977B1 - Use of a globin, a globin protomer or an extracellular hemoglobin for the preservation of organs, tissues, organ and tissue cells.
Research
• Adrian V.S. Hill (Ireland/United Kingdom)
Invention: Invention of an adjuvant for the development of a highly effective malaria vaccine.
Sample patent
EP2945649 B1 - Composition and uses thereof.
• Mikko Möttönen (Finland)
Invention: Cryogenic microwave sensor for quantum computing.
Sample patent
EP3714245B1 - Cryogenic microwave analyzer.
• Paula Videira and team (Portugal)
Invention: The L2a5 monoclonal antibody for identifying and targeting cancer cells.
Sample patent
EP3743726B1 - L2a5 antibody or functional fragment thereof against tumor antigens.
Non-EPO Countries
• Yu Haijun and Xie Yinghao (China)
Invention: Smart battery recycling, using "reverse-positioning" technology to convert spent batteries into ultra-high-quality new cathode materials.
Sample patent
EP4206141B1 - Method for preparing lithium nickel cobalt manganate by means of reverse positioning of power battery and use thereof.
• Emily Morris and Thorsten Stoesser (United States/Germany).
Invention: Novel distributed hydropower generation systems.
Sample patent
EP3682107B1 - Hydro transition systems and methods of using the same.
Invention: Novel distributed hydropower generation systems.
Sample patent
EP3682107B1 - Hydro transition systems and methods of using the same.
• Aníbal Montalva Rodríguez and Miguel Ángel Fernández Donoso (Chile).
Invention: Sample patent: Living biofilter for efficient air purification
Sample patent
EP3345671B1 - Systems for decontamination by means of a biofilter for retaining and recycling pollutants of particulate material from combustion fumes, and method thereof.
Reference
European Patent Awards 2026 - Press Release
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