Nominate

Do you know an inventor whose breakthrough is changing lives?

Nominate the next IPO Education Foundation Inventor of the Year to recognize today’s most outstanding inventors and how their work strengthens the nation’s economy and quality of life.

Awards Criteria:

PATENT – Must have at least one U.S. patent

COMMERCIALIZATION – Invention must be on the market

DEADLINE – Submit your nomination by March 2, 2026

Your Nomination demonstrates how innovations have reshaped industries and societies.

Such as past winners like:

Erin & Lee Hanson, Guardian, inventors of the Guardian Cap and other inventions impacting sports safety

Katalin Kariko (BioNTech), Ugur Sahin (BioNTech), Ozlem Tureci (BioNTech), and Drew Weissman (University of Pennsylvania) for the development of mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.

Alex Kipman, Microsoft Corp., inventor of Kinect, Microsoft’s motion sensing device developed for Xbox 360.