PolyU Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office (KTEO) launched the inaugural PolyU Patents Achievement Award this year in appreciation and honour of the remarkable achievements of departments and inventors who actively engaged in Intellectual Property (IP) filing. The PolyU Patents Achievement Recognition Ceremony was held on 3 July 2024. PolyU BME and Ir Professor Yongping Zheng both received the awards as a department and an inventor respectively.
BME was awarded the Top Patents Filing Award 2023 together with four other PolyU departments. The award recognised the department’s IP filing activities over the past five years (2019-2023). And as an Inventor, Ir Professor Yongping Zheng received the Most Active Patents Filing Award in the year 2023, which recognised his IP filing achievements within the past year.
These awards are great recognition, encouragement and motivation to all BME colleagues who have been dedicating great efforts in transforming innovations and research breakthroughs into real-world industrial and social solutions.
Congratulations to PolyU BME and Prof. Zheng!