WORLD – Siemens has announced that it will honour nine particularly ingenious researchers as Inventors of the Year 2015. The scientists – who come from Germany, the U.S., the UK and Norway – are responsible for a combined total of 650 inventions and 309 individual patent grants. Siemens has been presenting the Inventors of the Year award annually since 1995 to the organization’s outstanding researchers and developers whose inventions have made a major contribution to the company’s success.

This years winners are:

• Ove Bø: An electricity network on the seabed
• Dr. Ghenadie Bulat: Keeping the flame alive
• Steffen Fries: No chance of data theft in connection with remote maintenance
• Dr. Ali Kamen: Navigation inside the body during surgeries and biopsies
• Dr. Steffen Kappler: Computed tomography in color
• Howard Mattson and Douglas King: Revolutionary software for digital modeling
• Dr. Pornsak Songkakul: No Heat Build-up in Data Centers
• Alto Stemmer: Razor-sharp MRI scans in breathing rhythm