Nominees and winners 2010

The 2010 European Inventor Award ceremony took place in Madrid, Spain on 28/29 April.  

Industry

• Winners: Albert Markendorf (Switzerland) and Raimund Loser (Germany)
  Three-dimensional scanning and measuring system
• Hermann Grether and Christoph Weis (Germany)
  Jet regulator for water taps
• Benedetto Vigna (Italy)
  Three-dimensional motion sensor

SMEs/research

• Winners: Jürgen Pfitzer and Helmut Nägele (Germany)
  Arboform renewable plastic
• Albert Gelet, Jean-Yves Chapelon, Dominique Cathignol and Emmanuel Blanc (France)
  Therapeutic prostate cancer treatment probe
• Jorge Blasco, José Luis Gonzalez, Francisco Andres, Antonio Pairet and Antonio Poveda (Spain)
  Overvoltage protection circuit; method for multiple access and data transmission

Non-European countries

• Winners: Sanjai Kohli and Steven Chen (USA)
  GPS Spread spectrum receiver
• Winners: Ben Wiens and Danny Epp (Canada)
  Electrochemical fuel cell
• Napoleone Ferrara and team (USA)
  Anti-VEGF antibodies

Lifetime achievement

• Winner: Wolfgang Krätschmer (Germany)
  Process for working with new form of carbon
• Peter Landrock (Denmark)
  Encryption codes for secure electronic data transfer
• Désiré Collen (Belgium)
  Thrombolytic treatments for heart attacks and strokes

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