William Warner set a new standard in the film industry when he invented the Avid Media Composer®, a digital, nonlinear editor with the ability to make instantaneous changes at anytime, anywhere in the program. Warner founded Avid Technology, Inc. in 1987, and popular movies such as “Titanic” and “The Matrix” were edited with his products.
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On Thursday, May 27, from 1–2 p.m. ET, join the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for an inspiring conversation about innovation with Frances Ligler, National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee and leader in the optical biosensor industry, and Drew Hirshfeld, performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. Ligler will discuss her work as a groundbreaking biochemist and bioengineer and offer lessons learned from her personal journey.
Register early for this special event.
Ligler holds more than 30 U.S. patents, and her portable optical biosensors are used in labs, food production plants, clinics in developing countries, pollutant cleanup sites, and areas of concern for the military and homeland security. She has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
This fireside chat is offered by the USPTO’s Office of Innovation Outreach. For questions or assistance, please contact InnovationOutreach@uspto.gov.
Don’t forget: The USPTO offers many informative presentations, panels, and chats year-round. Find one that interests you on the Events page of the USPTO website.
Bantval Jay Baliga’s insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), a semiconductor power switch, has reduced gasoline consumption by 10% and improved electrical energy efficiency by more than 40%. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Physicist Ashok Gadgil’s inventions have improved quality of life for over 100 million people globally. Most famous for the Berkeley-Darfur Stove, which reduced fuel demand for millions of people in displacement camps, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Emulsified zero-valent iron, known as EZVI, is an environmental cleanup system designed to remove concentrated contaminants from our groundwater, and is one of the most licensed NASA technologies ever. Its inventor, Jackie Quinn, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 and is this week’s #FeaturedInductee. Read or listen to our Journeys of Innovation interview with Jackie Quinn.
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If you caught the big game last night, you likely saw the invention of
today’s #FeaturedInductee in action. Stan Honey, inducted into the
National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018, is the creator of the Virtual
Yellow 1st & Ten® line.
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Today’s #FeaturedInductee is Frances Ligler, the inventor of a portable optical biosensor used in many different settings across the globe. Ligler was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2017.
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The USPTO and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, a nonprofit organization, have partnered since 1973 to encourage creativity, exploration, and inventiveness; manage the museum located at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia; and induct extraordinary inventors into the Hall of Fame.
In a new series highlighting some of the world-changing innovators inducted into the Hall of Fame, we’ll feature an inductee on social media every other Monday. Dr. Victor Lawrence, inducted in 2016, is our first #FeaturedInductee.
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The competition encourages invention, entrepreneurship, and creativity in students who are working on cutting-edge inventions at their colleges and universities. Outstanding inventions in science, engineering, mathematics, technology (STEM) and other creative fields are judged by a panel of National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees and USPTO officials.
For a more detailed description of their invention and information about other entries see the current finalists' link on the contest webpage. Read more about the contest on the Department of Commerce blog.
Posthumous awards will recognize the following inventors at the awards ceremony on May 4th and 5th at the Hall's home in Akron, Ohio : Allen Breed for the automotive airbag; David Cushman and Miguel Ondetti for captopril (medical Ace inhibitor); Donald Davies for digital packet switching; William Goddard and John Lynott for magnetic disk storage; Peter Goldmark for the long playing (LP) record; Maurice Hilleman for vaccines including the MMR; Godfrey Hounsfield for the CAT scanner; Arthur Nobile for prednisone (steriod); and Otto Wichterle for the soft contact lens.
The living inventors to be inducted are: Paul Baran for digital packet switching; Emmett Chappelle for bioluminescence techniques; John Franz for Roundup® herbicide; Leroy Hood for the DNA sequencer; Paul Lauterbur for magnetic resonance imaging—MRI; Peter Mansfield also for magnetic resonance imaging—MRI; and Robert Metcalfe for the Ethernet.