Sri Lankan Inventors win gold at the 43rd International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, Switzerland, the world’s largest market-place for inventions
Sri Lanka won five gold medals at the upcoming 43rd International Exhibition of Inventions to be held from 15-19 April 2015 in Geneva, which is known as the world’s largest market-place for inventions. At this event, inventions of more than 700 companies, universities and individual inventors from 48 countries are exhibited for the first time, with 60,000 visitors from all 5 continents.
The Exhibition is a unique platform for meetings between inventors, industrialists, investors and distributors. Each year, a business volume of more than 50 million Euros is generated from the sale of licences during or after the show. An International Jury of 85 experts awarded many highly regarded prizes to the best inventions.
Sri Lanka Inventors Commission sponsored the following inventors who won Gold Medals at the Geneva international Invention Exhibition 2015:
| Name of the Inventor | Name of the Invention | |
| 1. | Mr. W S R Thamel (Inventor) | Rail Gate Control System Using Fuzzy Logic (Collaborative Invention) |
| 2. | Mr. K G D Divon Layantha (Co-partner) | Rail Gate Control System Using Fuzzy Logic (Collaborative Invention) |
| 3. | Dr. R. M. H. M. A. I. Herath | Peripheral Nerve Stimulator Needle with Extended Function |
| 4. | Mr. M. A. Firouze | Smart Intelligent Jacket |
| 5. | Mr. Anura Sooriyaarachchi | Safety Coconut Husk Feeding Mechanism to Extract Bristol Fibre from Traditional Fiber Extraction Process |
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka
Geneva
19 April 2015