EPO – European Patent Office honours exceptional inventors from Austria, France, Japan, the Netherlands and Spain with European Inventor Award 2019
Held at the Wiener Stadthalle, the Award ceremony, now in its 14th edition, was attended by some 600 guests from the fields of intellectual property, politics, business, science and academia.
The finalists and winners were selected by an independent, international jury from a pool of hundreds of inventors and teams of inventors put forward for this year’s Award.
The recipient of the Popular Prize was chosen by the general public through an online vote in the run-up to the ceremony.
The laureates of the European Inventor Award 2019 are:
Akira Yoshino (Japan)
Lithium-ion battery and its evolution
This Japanese scientist is the father of the lithium-ion battery (LIB).
His rechargeable batteries power nearly five billion mobile phones, laptops and other portable devices, as well as electric vehicles.
For decades he has been dedicated to continually improving LIBs.
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