World Intellectual Property Day highlights women

Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyright) play in encouraging innovation and creativity.

This year’s World Intellectual Property Day campaign celebrates the brilliance, ingenuity, curiosity and courage of the women who are driving change in our world and shaping our common future.

Therefore, INESC TEC decided to pay tribute to its only two female inventors, Susana Silva and Joana Paiva, with two videos presenting the patented technologies they invented.

Susana Silva, researcher  of INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP), is one of the inventors of CRD Sensing Technology, a new optical fibre configuration that makes possible remote sensing using commercial equipment such as the OTDR, enabling a more efficient, compact and easy handling sensing system.

Joana Paiva, researcher of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) is one of the inventors of two of INESC TEC’s patents: BeatID and BeatStress. Both BeatID and BeatStress are based on the morphological analysis of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal of a person.

The researchers mentioned in this news piece are associated with INESC TEC.