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    EDISON AWARD  2018       


Since the inception of this award system in 1987, year on year outstanding scientific results worldwide have been evaluated and rewarded in 16 categories for showing their way in everyday practice. The idea of a regular awarding system was inspired by life achievement of Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 - 18 October 1931) who envisioned the future of industrial research laboratories giving rise to inventions with further research and development, finally concluding in commercialization.

Examples of inventions awarded in year 2018 are as follow.

  Space Innovation/Space Technologies  
Silver
inventor: Lockheed Martin Corporation 
USA

GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series): meteorological satellite series developed for quality weather forecasting  in climate monitoring, ecosystem management, trade, transportation, and travel. Satellite observation area: USA, Western Hemisphere.
First in world meteorological satellite was TIROS 1 (1960, Lockheed Martin).
First in the series, satellite GOES-R (named GOES-16) was launched on 19-11-2016 to take its geostationary orbit position.
Second in the series, satellite GOES-S 
was launched on 2018-03-01.
Further members of the series as planned: satellites GOES-T, GOES-U.
Technically, satellite series GOES-R is based on A2100 communications spacecraft model originally designed for 15 years of circulation time.
Members of
satellite series GOES-R each, are provided with duplicates of instruments for sensing-measuring in three directions (direction of Earth, direction of Sun, direction of Environment). These instruments are:
1. solar ultraviolet imager,
2. geostationary lightning-mapper,  
3. magnetometer data collector.


https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/goes-r-series.html

US20170068012A1: Magnetic wake detector
US20040192197A1: Geostationary satellite system with satellite clusters having intra-cluster local area networks and inter-cluster wide area network

Social Innovation/Surveillance
Gold

inventor:  Neurala Inc.
USA

Neurala Brains for Bots SDK
- Neurala’s Lifelong Deep Neural Network (L-DNN)™
: bio-inspired artificial intelligence software and a simple camera for machine learning.
Its application can teach industrial cameras, robots, drones, electronic toys, diverse electronics, self-driving cars (...) to identify, localize and
real-time track target people, animals and objects.
A Neurala Brain Technology a NASA és a U.S. Air Force részére fejlesztett korábbi technológiára épül. 


Examples of implementation:

1. livestock protection, recognition of poachers,
2. finding missing persons,
3. control of electric power lines' insulation, corrosion,
4. hobby photography
,
5. driving assistance in car.


WO2017189859 (A1): METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRUNING EXPERIENCE MEMORIES FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORK-BASED Q-LEARNING   
Health & Wellness/Hearing Enhancement
Gold
inventor: Earlens Corporation
USA

Earlens device, an opto-coupled hearing aid composed of:
* a processor converting incoming sound into optical light,
* a light source associated with the processor,
and
* a "lens" for converting optical light into mechanical vibration.
The "lens" in a customized formulation is placed by an ear nose specialist, directly on the eardrum surface for stable stay there (> maintained by liquid surface tension).

During its operation, the processor placed behind the auricle converts the recorded sound into optical light, then the processor associated light source positioned in the ear canal emits the corresponding light signals.
The emitted light signals are projected onto the transducer called "lens" placed on the eardrum surface to give rise to mechanical vibrations there. (The description does not define the level of hearing damage to be improved by the device. Nevertheless, the operation suggests that integrity of the auditory ossicles and the inner ear, their impulse receiving and forwarding abilities are indispensable.)
Compared to preceding audio-solutions, the method described offers broader hearing spectrum
(audio-solution based hearing spectrum of cca. 1kHz - 4 kHz, opto-coupled hearing spectrum of cca. 100 Hz - 10 kHz).
The processor with rechargeable batteries and the associated light source, after adjustment on demand, automatically adjust to ambient noise levels.

The fundamental defect of hearing aids based on audio impulses, the frequency-related noise (whistles), can be successfully excluded.

https://earlens.com/the-earlens-device/

WO2018048794A1: Contact hearing systems, apparatus and methods
Medical-Dental/Cellular Research
Silver
inventor: Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center
USA

Supported by experimental in vivo - in vitro results, Tissue Nanotransfection Technology is an in situ direct, simple regenerative cell conversion (reprogramming of cells) performed with the help of silicon chip, without the need for carrier virus sequences.
The chip is loaded with 
DNA and/or RNA and/or proteins (of signalling pathways, transcription factors...) as demanded for target regenerative cell conversion, target cell reprogramming
(e.g. injury-related deficiencies in the skin, skin deficiencies related to chronic diseases...). Upon touching target tissue surfaces with the chip loaded as above, short lived current impulses open nanochannels in target cell membranes (NEP = 3D nanochannel electroporation; precise, dosage-controlled, deterministic single cell transfection). These transitory nanochannels serve as entrance for macromolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins) to initiate target regeneration, the adaptive reprograming of cell(s).
According to recent experimental data, the technology is also applicable in regeneration of other tissues, too (
e.g. neuronal cells grown on skin surface of experimental mice >>> isolation of neuronal cell population from skin surface >>> injection into injured brain area of the host >>> regain of brain functions in the injured area)

http://osuwmc.multimedia-newsroom.com

Gallego-Perez D. et al. (+24) (2016):
Deterministic Transfection Drives Efficient Nonviral Reprogramming and Uncovers Reprogramming Barriers
Nanomedicine 12: 399–409.      PMCID: PMC5161095
Jessen K.R. et al. (2015):
The Role of Cell Plasticity in Tissue Repair: Adaptive Cellular Reprogramming
Developmental Cell 34: 613-620.

WO2007053802 (A2): DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY BY POLYMER NANONOZZLE AND NANOTIP CELL PATCH








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    EUROPEAN INVENTOR AWARD  2018



The European Patent Office published the list of finalists
for
European Inventor Award  2018
.

Three candidates per category have been nominated in five categories, namely:
   » Industry » Research » Non-EPO Countries » Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises » Lifetime Achievement »  
and the additional
single » Popular Prize »  
so that,
   altogether 15 candidates reached the finals. 

Results of the competition were announced on June 7, 2018  (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris).


Among the finalists listed below, winners are highlighted in colour.

Note: when opening patent links Readers are offered the choice of English, French, or German languages.





INDUSTRY


Popular Prize
Erik Loopstra and Vadim Banine [ASML Netherlands BV, The Netherlands]
Extreme ultraviolet lithography for smaller, more powerful microchips



Category Award
Agnčs Poulbot and Jacques Barraud [Michelin, France]
"Auto-regenerating" tyre tread
Patent  EP2379352


Gaute Munch, Erik Hansen and team [LEGO A/S, Denmark]
Programmable LEGO robotic toys
Patents  EP1146941, EP1148921, EP2217341, EP2032227



RESEARCH


Category Award
Jens Frahm [Max Planck Society, Germany]
Improved magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Eileen Ingham and John Fisher CBE  [University of Leeds, UK]
Decellularisation for regenerative medicine
Jacek Jemielity, Joanna Kowalska, Edward Darżynkiewicz and team  [University of Warsaw, Poland]
Stabilised mRNA for new therapies for cancers and genetic defects
Patents  EP2167523, EP2297175



NON-EPO COUNTRIES

Category Award
Esther Sans Takeuchi [Greatbatch Inc., United States]
Battery electrodes, batteries for implantable defibrillators
Stephen W. Dewar, Philip Watts and Frank Fish  [WhalePower Corporation, Canada]
Turbines and fans inspired by whales
Patent  EP1805412


Alex Kipman [Microsoft, United States]
HoloLens mixed-reality smart glasses
Patent  EP3028121



SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES


Category Award
Jane ní Dhulchaointigh and team  [FormFormForm Ltd, UK]
Sugru mouldable glue
Patent  EP2089465


Mehrdad Mahdjoubi  [Orbital Systems, Sweden]
Closed-loop shower
Patent  EP2793667


Thomas Scheibel  [AMSilk GmbH, Germany]
Artificial spider silk
Patents  EP2021361, EP2013290, EP1948684



LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT


Category Award
Ursula Keller - Switzerland  [AT&T Bell Laboratories, GigaTera, Time-Bandwidth Products]
Ultra-fast lasers
Patents  EP1735681, EP1456916


Jacques Lewiner  [Finsecur S.A., France + more ...]
Optical sensors, ionisation-chamber smoke detector, coded lock devices and more
Patents  EP0034077, EP0236223, EP0169150  and more...


Henrik Stiesdal - Denmark [Siemens Wind Power, Stiesdal A/S]  
The "Danish Concept", IntegralBlade and TetraSpar
Patents  EP2106900, EP1101935 and more...



Source: EPO






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   NOBEL PRIZE  2018




PHYSIOLOGY - MEDICINE

         James P. ALLISON  (USA)  1/2
           TASUKU  HONJO  (Japan) 1/2

LITERATURE




..........
PHYSICS

                 Arthur ASHKIN (USA) 1/2
 
Gérard MOUROU (France,USA) 1/4
 Donna STRICKLAND (Canada) 1/4

PEACE


 Denis MUKWEGE  (Congo)  1/2
        Nadia MURAD  (Iraque)  1/2


"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
CHEMISTRY

       Frances H. ARNOLD (USA) 1/2
          George P. SMITH (USA) 1/4
   Sir Gregory P. WINTER (UK) 1/4

ECONOMIC SCIENCES


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