Tuesday, May 14, 2019

EPO Inventor Awards 2019 – The finalists

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

On May 7, 2019, the European Patent Organization (EPO) announced the list of 15 finalists who will be contending for the five 2019 European Inventor awards. EPO Inventor awards are granted in 5 categories of activity: Research, Small & Medium Enterprise, Industry, Lifetime Achievement and Non-EPO country. A sixth award, the popular award, is also granted. The popular award invites everyone, including you, to vote for their favorite inventor/invention among the group of 15 selected finalists.

The winners are then announced at the EPO Inventors awards ceremony, to be held this year on June 20, 2019 in Vienna, Austria.

The finalists in each of the 5 categories, together with a few of the recent EP patents granted for their inventions, are listed below.

Research
Jérôme Galon (FR), inventor of the Immunoscore®
  • EP1943520 An in vitro method for the prognosis of progression of a cancer and of the outcome in a patient and means for performing said method  
  • EP2241891 An in vitro method for the prognosis of progression of a cancer and of the outcome in a patient and means for performing said method  
  • EP2420836 An in vitro method for the prognosis of progression of a cancer and of the outcome in a patient and means for performing said method
Matthias Mann (DE), inventor of protein analysis to diagnose disease
  • EP1355666 Use of repulsive guidance molecule (RGM) and its modulators  
  • EP2767834 Quantitative standard for mass spectrometry of proteins
Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot (IT), inventor of the ISET® blood test for the detection of tumor cells
  • EP2633912 Device for separating by vertical filtration of biological particles contained in a liquid  
  • EP1108057 Method, equipment and reagent for cell separation
  • EP1383926 Prenatal diagnosis method on isolated foetal cell of maternal blood 
  • EP1866091 Method and device for the separation of biological particles contained in a liquid by means of vertical filtration

Industry
Antonio Corredor Molguero and Carlos Fermín Menéndez Díaz (ES) inventors of a concrete mould for better breakwaters
  • EP2202361 Mould for manufacturing concrete cubipods
Kaus Feichtinger and Manfred Hacki (AT) inventors of higher-performance plastic recycling
  • EP2766166 Apparatus for processing plastic material
  • EP2689908 Device and method for processing plastic materials 
  • EP2766157 Apparatus for processing plastic material
  • EP2766158 Apparatus for processing plastic material 
  • EP2766159 Apparatus for processing plastic material
 Alexander van der Lely and Karel van den Berg (NL) inventors of milking robots for healthier cows
  • EP1188368  A construction for automatically milking animals  
  • EP0951651 A sensor apparatus, as well as a method of determining the position of an object, in particular a teat of an animal to be milked  
  • EP1221282  A device for and a method of cleaning a milking machine, and a milking machine  
  • EP1163843 method of increasing the utilization capacity of the implement  

Small & Medium enterprise
Esben Beck (NO) inventor of Lasers and AI for healthy salmon
  • EP2531022 Method and device for destroying parasites on fish
Rik Breur (NL) inventor of marine antifouling fiber wrap
  • EP1996453 Antifouling fibre coatings for marine constructions  
Richard Palmer and Philip Green (UK) inventor of flexible armor that hardens on impact
  • EP1832186 Energy absorbing material and corresponding method of manufacturing

Non-EPO countries
Akira Yoshino (JP) inventor of lithium-ion battery and its evolution
  •  EP2063435 Novel polymer electrolyte and electrochemical device  
  •  EP2063436 Polymeric electrolyte, method for production thereof, and electrochemical element
Gideon Stein (IL) inventor of vision for vehicles to improve road safety
  •  EP1806595 Estimating distance to an object using a sequence of images recorded by a monocular camera  
  •  EP1236126 System for detecting obstacles to vehicle motion
  •  EP1741079 Collision warning system  
Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre (US) inventors of eco-friendly packaging from mushrooms
  • EP2702137 Method for making dehydrated mycelium elements and product made thereby  
  • EP2094856 Method for producing grown materials and products made thereby  

Lifetime achievement
Margarita Salas Falgueras (ES)DNA amplification for genomics
  • EP2450453  Method for the replication, amplification or sequencing of a DNA template 
  • EP2450436 Phage phi 29 DNA polymerase chimera
  • EP1970380 Inhibitor of the uracil-DNA glycosylase enzyme and uses thereof  
  • EP0527728 -i(in vitro) DNA synthesis reactions using phi 29 DNA polymerase and a DNA fragment encoding said polymerase
Marta Karczewicz (PL) inventor of advances in video compression
  • EP2304961 Rate-distortion defined interpolation for video coding based on fixed filter or adaptive filter
  • EP2074828 Efficient significant coefficients coding in scalable video codecs  
  • EP2165542 Adaptive coefficient scanning in video coding
Maximilian Haider (AT) inventor of sharper electron microscopes
  • EP1057204 Device for correcting third-order spherical aberration in a lens, especially the objective lens of an electronic microscope  
  • EP1012866 Method for eliminating first, second and third-order axial image deformations during correction of the third-order spherical aberration in electron optical systems 
A YouTube view of the 2019 EPO inventor finalists is included below.




The Popular Vote
To vote for your favorite inventor/invention, please click here.   
You may vote every day, as many times as you like, for one inventor/invention.

Reference
The European Inventor Awards 2019

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