Spanish Researcher Wins Global Invention Award
April 28th, 2010
An identity recognition development by a Spanish researcher specializing in the human eye, Celia Sánchez Ramos, was selected on Sunday as the best invention of the year in the most prestigious global competition of its kind: the International Invention Awards that are held each year in Geneva.
Sánchez Ramos was “dazed but delighted,” she said that the award-winning invention is based on a development that recognizes and uses the cornea and lens element of the eye to accurately establish the identity of individuals.
Both the internal and external part of this part of the eye has some elements called “minutiae” that are unique in every person. The inventor was granted a patent in 2008, which has protected her invention, summarized as the reading of the topography of the corneal lens by means of “encryption codes that are similar to bar codes that identify consumer products.”
The system is “universal” because all people of all ages have these details in their eyes,” and they cannot be manipulated, since you cannot replace your eye, plus the “external identification method is non-intrusive.”
Celia Sánchez Ramos had already won a similar prize for this invention from the García Cabrerizo Foundation, the most important invention award given in Spain. In addition, the Foundation sponsored the contest in Geneva, in which Sanchez Ramos’s invention had to compete with another 750 inventions from 45 countries, including China, Iran, Germany, USA and France.
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