USPTO - Patents for Humanity

Recognizing life-saving COVID-19 innovations

It’s a privilege to announce the five winners of our Patents for Humanity: COVID-19 category competition. The awards recognize these innovators for their rapid response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic through the use of game-changing technologies. I want to commend these innovators for their ingenuity, dedication, and hard work to come up with creative solutions to this global challenge for the benefit of all.
This year’s awards recognize innovators with a pending U.S. patent application or issued U.S. patent focused on inventions that track, prevent, diagnose, or treat COVID-19. The winning innovations, which receive acceleration certificates to expedite select proceedings at the USPTO, went through two rounds of judging by experts, based on two scoring criteria: the effectiveness of the technology to address COVID-19 and the technology’s ultimate impact.

The winners of the Patents for Humanity: COVID-19 category awards are:

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