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Product category: Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: Bosch Automotive OE Division
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 April 2007

MEMS process innovation wins Europe-wide
award

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Two Bosch Group researchers have been named "European Inventors of the Year".

Andrea Urban and Dr Franz Larmer, two Bosch Group researchers, have been named "European Inventors of the Year" - an award sponsored by the EU Commission and the European Patent Office (EPO) The award was presented at a ceremony in Munich by Gunter Verheugen, EU Commission Vice-President, and Alain Pompidou, EPO President

"This award is recognition of the far-reaching consequences of many Bosch Group innovations", said Dr Siegfried Dais, Deputy Chairman of the Bosch board of management, whose responsibilities include research and advance engineering.

The award recognises inventors and innovations that have made a major contribution to technological progress in Europe and beyond - and thus also to strengthening Europe's economic position.

Urban and Dr Larmer developed a process that revolutionised the manufacture of the micromechanical components known as MEMS (microelectromechanical systems).