The winners of the Intellectual Property Award (IPA), the competition for Italian technological patents resulting from public research organised by the Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (Ministry of Economic Development) in collaboration with Netval (Network for Research Valorisation), were announced at the Pavilion of Italy Expo 2020 in Dubai.

Two patents of the Politecnico di Milano were among the winners:
– HYBRIS, winner in the “aerospace” sector: this is the design of a hybrid-electric aircraft with structural batteries.
The inventors: Andrea Bernasconi, Fabio Biondani, Luca Capoferri, Alberto Favier, Federico Gualdoni, Carlo Riboldi, Lorenzo Trainelli, Carmen Velarde Lopez de Ayala

– SINERGY, winner in the “alternative energy” sector: it is the invention of a metal-polysulfide flow cell battery that uses inexpensive, abundant and non-toxic materials.
The inventors: Luca Magagnin, Gabriele Panzeri, Eugenio Gilbertini, Alessandra Accogli, Matteo Salerno, Luca Bertoli

https://www.polimi.it/en/opening-details/article/10/intellectual-property-award-premiati-due-brevetti-polimi-10102/

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