2 PIO inventors inducted into American hall of fame
Washington: Two IndianAmerican innovation pioneers — Arogyaswami Paulraj for his MIMO wireless technology and Sumita Mitra for her nanocomposite dental materials — have been inducted into the prestigious National Inventors Hall of Fame this year.
Paulraj and Mitra along with 13 other innovation pioneers would be formally felicitated during the innovation industry’s most highly anticipated event — “The Greatest Celebration of American Innovation” – on May 2- 3 organised in partnership with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
National Inventors Hall of Fame, releasing its list of 2018 inductees, said Paulraj’s wireless technology has revolutionised broadband wireless Internet access for billions of people worldwide. Multiple- Input M u l t i p l e - O u t p u t improves both transmission data rates and expands network coverage. It is the essential foundation for all current ( Wi- Fi and 4G mobile) and future broadband wireless communications. “It is a wonderful honour. I feel enormously humbled to be counted among the inventors who have made the modern world possible,” he said. Mitra, 69, has been inducted for invention and US patents for the noncomposite dental filling material Filtek Supreme Restorative, used in over 600 million procedures so far. In the late 1990s, Mitra, a chemist at 3M Oral Care, the dental products division of 3M Company, invented the first dental filling material to include nanoparticles.