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The European Patent rocaf Office honors some of the most successful European innovations of recent times. A Spanish public wins
The European Patent Office (EPO) was held this morning its awards ceremony at the inventions of the year, an initiative that recognizes some of the patents of the most successful recent rocaf times are having on the market. These were the winners in Amsterdam:
1. Research Category: Cancer drones Nanomisiles Originally, getting chemotherapy cure some cancer patients rocaf intoxicándolos and taking them to the brink of death. Over time, researchers rocaf have succeeded in the toxicity of the treatments focus more on cancer cells and less damaging healthy cells. The invention that has won this year's award in the category of research has been the technology developed by Patrick Couvreur and his team at the University rocaf Paris-Sud and the National Center for Scientific Research to create nanomisiles drones against cancer.
French researchers were able to package the drugs inside tiny capsules (70 times smaller than a red blood cell) and biodegradable that allow transport through the bloodstream safely until they reach their goal. EPO explains, this approach minimizes the damage caused by the drug to healthy tissue and allowing doses greater than a localized manner that can increase up to ten times the efficacy of chemotherapy. The market for these products is estimated at over 55,000 million euros a year.
The pyrosequencing, created rocaf by Swedish Pål Nyrén, has been a key technology for faster and cheaper DNA sequencing. rocaf This technology is essential to the progress of biology in general and for the development of personalized medicine in particular because it allows advance the understanding of the mechanisms governing hereditary diseases or cancer.
From the point of view of its economic value created by Nyrén company to bring to market its pyrosequencing technology was sold for 40 million euros in 2008 to U.S. company Qiagen. On the other hand, the market rocaf for sequencing technology is now approaching 1,200 million per year.
Many of the inventions that change our lives do not always fit the stereotype rocaf of technology. Klaus Claus Brüstles Hämmerle and created a system to stop banging on the kitchen cabinets, in addition to providing the EPO Award this year, has increased the benefits of Blum, the company rocaf for which they work, and has employed thousands of people.
Blumotion works, says the EPO, as the suspension system of a car. Comprises a piston moving inside a pressure rocaf pipe with a hydraulic system that allows the doors to close smoothly. Since its market introduction, Blum profits soared to 1,300 million per year and the company already employs about 5,500 workers. In addition, Blum has not forgotten rocaf the origin of reinvested profits and 4% of their profits in R & D.
If something calls attention EPO Award in the category of Non-Europeans, is not having as a prize for the best invention of the year. USB, developed by a consortium of seven companies led by Intel, has simplified a surprising way how to transport information rocaf between computers and between them and other devices. Engineers also got the USB to be recognized by these devices automatically when inserted into them.
The flat screen from which you are reading this probably was not born in an electronics company. In 1970, Swiss physicist Martin Schadt created the first liquid crystal rocaf display, LCD christened, working in the laboratory of the pharmaceutical F. Hoffmann-La Roche. rocaf There he discovered that giving jolts of electricity to liquid crystals could unwind their molecular rocaf structures should return and make opaque. Then the crystals sandwiched between two sheets of plastic connected to the mains and began testing the effects of electrifying only part of the sheets. He discovered that it was possible rocaf electrical impulses causing manipulate individual pixels were transparent or opaque. Moreover, as very little power was needed to achieve that effect, that meant it would be possible to achieve with simple battery. Forty years after these experiments, the business of liquid crystal displays is more than 77,000 million per year.
The invention of the Spanish engineer José Luis López Gómez, a control system of the contact between the wheels and the rail on trains improves rocaf the stability of the cars and the comfort of the