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Acknowledgement ...11
Foreword ...13
Preface ...15
Past Publications of Indian Innovators Association ...19
Papers of A. S. Rao on SSRN ... 25
Follow Indian Innovators Association on Social Media ...27
Why We Must Design and Develop in India, Not Just ‘Make’ – Ashok Atluri ... 29
How Can You Use Gamification to Boost Innovation? ...33
Group A: Global Innovators of Indian Origin ...35
1. Acoustography – Dr. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, USA ...37
2. Biosurfactants – TeeGene Biotech Ltd. UK ...41
3. Coal Science – Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA ...44
4. Carrier Gas Extraction Technology-Gradiant Corporation, USA ...47
5. Computer Science – Raj Reddy, USA ...50
6. Flash Memory-Micron Technology, USA ...53
7. Green Steel – Veena Sahazwalla, Australia ...57
8. Nanocomposite Dental Materials – Sumita Mitra, USA ...60
9. Regrowth of Bones – Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA...63
10. Rotimatic – Zimplistic Pte Ltd, Singapore ...66
11. Tiny Robots – Prof Vijay Kumar, USA ...69
12. Water Technology Visionary – Anil Jha, USA ...72
13. Wearable Sweat Sensor – EnLiSense LLC, USA ...75
14. Wearable and Reusable Outpatient Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Products – NimbleHeart, USA ...78
Group B: Agriculture ...81
1. 4G NANO” Based Nutritional Agri In-Puts – ICAR & Pratishta Industries, Hyderabad ...83
2. Agri PV-RenCube, Bangalore ...86
3. Anti-Pesticide Topical Gel – Praveen Kumar Vemula Lab at inStem, Sepio Health Private Limited, Bangalore ...89
4. Bio-Stimulants – Bio Prime Agri Solutions Pvt Ltd, Pune ...92
5. Digital Moisture Analyzer – AGRAIN, Ambala ...95
6. DME Tractor – TAFE, IIT Kanpur ...98
7. Food Processing Plants – Best Engineering Technologies, Hyderabad ... 101
8. Fruit Bar from Prickly Pear Fruits (Opuntia Ficus Indica) – Dr Chenna Kesava Reddy Sangati, IIPM, Bangalore ...104
9. GroTron Autonomous Irrigation System – Farmagain Agro Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore ...108
10. Innovative Rhizome Processing-S4 Foods, Aurangabad, Maharashtra ... 111
11. Kappahycus Alvarezii Elite Seedling Production – Dr. M. Ganesan, CSIR-CSMCRI ... 114
12. Machine to Remove Insects from Stored Grains – Professor (Retd) Mohan Sriramasarma, Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU), Coimbatore ... 117
13. Multipurpose Processing Machine – Dharamveer Singh Kamboj, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana ...120
14. Non-Invasive and Non-Intrusive Honey Harvesting Device – KLE Technological University, Hubballi ...123
15. Optical Fruit Sorting System – Zentron Labs Pvt Ltd, Bangalore ...126
16. Onion Warehouse with IOT – Godaam Innovations, Nashik ...129
17. Production of Seedlings in Agarose Yielding Red Seaweed Gracilaria Dura – Dr. Vaibhav A. Mantri, CSIR-CSMCRI ...132
18. Pesticidal Water Dispersible Granule Formulation –
Parijat Industries (India) Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi ...135 19. Smart Soil Monitoring System – Proximal Soilsens
Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Pune...138 20. Supply Chain Management for FPOs Vesatogo
Innovations, Nasik ...142 21. Solar Insect Traps – SAFS Ecotech Pvt Ltd, Puducherry ...145
Group C: Healthcare ... 149 1. AI Based Breast Cancer Detection – NIRAMAI Health
Analytix, Bangalore ...151 2. COVIHOME RNA Test Kit – Prof Shiv Govind Singh, IITH ...154 3. DNA Clean-Up Kit – Procyto Labs Pvt. Ltd,
Bhubaneswar, Odisha ...157 4. Dialysis-Grade Membranes – Prof. Jayesh Bellare,
IITB Mumbai ...160 5. Germicidal Fabric Technology – Praveen Kumar
Vemula Lab, InStem, Bangalore ...163 6. Insect Venom Derived Anti-Aging Peptide for Dermal
Application – S. Ramaswamy Lab, InStem ...166 7. Jaipur Belt – Ecoskelton – Newndra Innovations, Jaipur ...169 8. Lab-on-Chip, Microfluidic Chips – Prof Anil Prabhakar,
IITM ...172 9. Live Cell Imaging – Fluorescent Bioprobes Pvt Ltd, Goa ...175 10. mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine – Dr. Sanjay Singh, Gennova
Biopharmaceuticals Limited, Pune ...178 11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanner –
Voxelgrids Innovations Pvt Ltd, Bangalore ...182 12. Microneedles for Painless Injections – Suman Pahal,
Vemula Lab at InStem...186 13. Phototherapy Device for Neonatal Jaundice – Heamac
Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad ...189
14. Portable Inverted Microscope – Prof. Debjani Paul, IIT Bombay ...193 15. Protonated Bio-Adhesive Polymer Technology (PBT) –
Axio Biosolutions, Bangalore ...196 16. Poorti, Post Mastectomy Kit – Aarna Biomedical
Products, Faridabad ...199 17. Robotic Surgery – SS Innovations, Gurugram ...202 18. Swasa-Respiratory Healthcare-Salcit Technologies,
Hyderabad ...205 19. ToucHb, a Non-Invasive Anaemia Screener – Biosense
Technologies Private Limited, Bhiwandi, Maharashtra ...208 20. Video Laryngoscope – Dr. Kumaresh Krishnamoorthy,
Bangalore ...211 21. Visual Medical Data with AI – SigTuple
Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore ...214 22. Voice Prosthesis – Inaumation Medical Devices,
Bangalore ...217 23. Wearable EEG device – Neuphony, Noida (UP) ...220
Group D: Water & Sanitation ...223 1. Artistic Air Purification Tower – Verto-Studio Symbiosis,
New Delhi ...224 2. Electrolytic De-Fluoridation (EDF) Technique – NEERI ...227 3. e-Waste Recycling – Ecoreco, Mumbai ...230 4. Heliborne TEM Technology for Aquifer Mapping –
CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad ...233 5. Hot Water Dissolvable Sanitary Napkins,
Cresa Greentech, Pune ...237 6. Hydrogen (H2) Electrolyzers – Newtrace Pvt Ltd
Bangalore ...240 7. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus – Sentient Labs/ KPIT, Pune ...243 8. Intelligently Stirred Thermophilic Anaerobic Reactor –
Sankar Ganesh Palani, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad ...246
9. Marine Oil Spill Remediation – NIOT, Chennai ...249 10. Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) – NIT Warangal ...252 11. Muffler and Particulate Separator for Internal Combustion
Engine Exhaust – RnA Vortech Innovations, Chandigarh ....255 12. Plastic Waste into Green Fuel and Energy – DBT-ICT
Centre for Energy Biosciences ...258 13. Sanitary Pad Waste Recycling – Pad Care Labs, Pune ...261 14. Water Management Platform (MIDAS) – Ekatvam
Innovations, Thane ...264 15. Waterless urinal – Ekam Eco Solutions, New Delhi ...268
Group E: Defence & Aerospace ...273 1. Aero Structure Components – LMW Advanced
Technology Centre (ATC) ...275 2. Air Independent Propulsion System – Naval Materials
Research Laboratory (NMRL) and L&T...278 3. AI-based Aircraft Engine Inspection Tool – Awiros,
Gurugram ...282 4. BeagleZ-Explosive Detector – Prof Anil Kumar,
IITB/ BIGTEC LABS, Bangalore ...285 5. Long Range Surveillance-Optimized Electrotech,
Ahmedabad ...288 6. Smallest Short Range VTOL Quadcopter – Idea Forge ...291 7. Satellite Systems – Ananth Technologies, Hyderabad ...294 8. Satellite Bus Technology – ISRO/ Alpha Design
Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore ...297 9. Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) –
IUCAA, Pune ...301 10. Smart Policing – Staqu Technologies, Gurugram ...304 11. Unmanned Autonomous Vessel – Sagar Defence
Engineering, Pune ...308
Group F: Industrial Products ... 311 1. AI based Video Analytics Platform-DocketRun, Hubballi ....313 2. Ajit Microprocessor – Prof Madhav Desai, IITB ...316 3. Automated Pencil Electrode Formation Platform –
Lanka Tata Rao, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad ...319 4. Carbon Nanotubes – Nopo Nano Technologies,
Bangalore ...322 5. Carrier Ethernet Switch Routers – Prof Ashwin
Gumaste, IITB ...325 6. Cellulose Based Geotextile – Anasua Guha Ray,
BITS Pilani Hyderabad ...328 7. Drop-In Liquid Sustainable Aviation and Automotive
Fuel – Dr Anil Kumar Sinha, CSIR-IIP ...331 8. Electric Wheel Barrow-Technovos Machinery Pvt Ltd ...335 9. Flow Battery – Prof Kothandaraman Ramanujam, IITM ...338 10. GigaMesh – mmWave Wireless Backhaul
Radio-Astrome Technologies, USA/India ...341 11. Guided Waves Sensors – Prof Krishnan
Balasubramanian, IITM ...344 12. Horizontal Boring Machine for Underground –
CSIR-CBRI ...347 13. Hot Wire Cutting Machine – Prof Sathyan S, IITM ...350 14. Induction Motor Stethoscope (MSCOPE) – CSIR –
CSIO, Chennai ...353 15. Li-Fi Products-Velmenni, New Delhi ...356 16. Microfluidic Electro-Viscometer – Dr. Sanket Goel,
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad ...359 17. Silver Nanowire – CSIR-NCL ...362 18. Ultra Spinner – CeraTattva, IITM, Chennai ...365 19. Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM)
in a Network Router – Prof. Krishna Moorthy
Sivalingam, IITM ...368 20. Wirelsss GPS Clock – Signals & Systems (India)
Private Limited (SANDS) ...371
Group G: Consumer Products ...375
1. AC Helmet – Jarsh Innovations Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad ...376
2. Board Games – Mozaic Games, Bangalore ...379
3. Burst Preventive Puncture Curative (BPPC) Tyres – TJ Tyres, Faridabad ...383
4. Mouseware – Dextroware Devices, Chennai ...386
5. Piezoelectric Microphone – Anand Richard Lobo, Goa ...389
6. Robotic Scrubber Dryer – Aubotz Labs Pvt Ltd, Pune ...392
7. Saline Water Lamp – Dr Purnima Jalihal, NIOT, Chennai ...396
8. Siddu Jackfruit-Paramesha S. S and IIHR Karnataka ...399
9. Stay Warm (Hand, Body, Foot and Sleeping Bag Warmers – Parisodhana Technologies, Hyderabad ...402
10. Walnut Cracker – Mushtaq Ahmed Dar, Kashmir ...406
Group H: Young Innovators ... 409
1. ReMat Filament Machine ... 411
2. Converting Plastic Waste Bottles to 3d Printing Filament ...412
3. The Ultimate Child Safety Solution ... 414
4. Design of Precise Roller Bearings Based Peristaltic Pump with Integrated Real-Time Data Acquisition System ...416
5. Evyam New Gen Solution ...418
6. Happy – The Smart Desk Companion Robot ...420
7. Design and Development of an Iot Based Protective Device to Prevent Electrocution ...422
8. Design, Fabrication and Testing of Low-Cost Innovative Magneto-Rheological Clutch for a Commercial Vehicle ...424
9. Plastic Collecting Device Makara- ...426
10. TCS CodeVita Season 10 Global Coding Competition ...428
Group A
Global Innovators of Indian Origin
1. Acoustography – Dr. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, USA 2. Bio surfactants – TeeGene Biotech, UK
3. Coal Science – Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA
4. Carrier Gas Extraction technology – Gradiant corporation, USA 5. Computer Science – Raj Reddy, USA
6. Flash memory – Micron Technology, USA 7. Green Steel – Veena Sahazwalla, Australia
8. Nanocomposite Dental Materials – Sumita Mitra, USA 9. Regrowth of Bones – Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA 10. Rotimatic – Zimplistic Pte, Singapore
11. Tiny Robots – Prof Vijay Kumar, USA
12. Water Technology Visionary – Anil Jha, USA 13. Wearable Sweat sensor – EnLiSense, USA
14. Wearable and reusable outpatient ambulatory ECG monitoring products – NimbleHeart, USA
Sandhu, USA
Dr. Jas Sandhu received a B.Sc (honors) in Physics from the University of Sussex (UK) in 1975 and M.Sc. in Solid State Physics from the University of London (UK) in 1976. He then went on to do research work in the field of Ultrasonics and received his Ph.D.
degree in Physics from the University of London in 1980. After graduate school, Dr. Sandhu joined ITT Corporation and in 1989 he decided to start his own company Santec Systems, Inc to develop and commercialize Acoustography. Dr. Sandhu is the President &
Founder of Santec Systems, Inc
He is best known for his pioneering work in developing
“Acoustography,” a novel ultrasound imaging method. Jas has dedicated most of his professional career to developing
is currently collaborating with various aerospace companies to develop Acoustography to provide dramatically faster NDI (Non Destructive Inspection) of composites. Jas’s dedicated effort earned him the Best Paper Award in 2001 by SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering. He also received the prestigious
"Award for Innovation," in 2010 from the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (NDT) the world largest organization in the NDT field. Jas is the recipient of more than 15 patents and has authored over 100 papers, presentations and reports in the field of Acoustography.
LinkedIn Profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaswinder-singh- sandhu-08b1048/
Technology
Acoustic microscopy employs very high or ultrahigh frequency ultrasound. Acoustic microscopes operate non-destructively and penetrate most solid materials to make visible images of internal features, including defects such as cracks, delamination and voids.
The notion of acoustic microscopy dates back to 1936 when S.
Ya. Sokolov proposed a device for producing magnified views of structure with 3-GHz sound waves. However, due to technological limitations at the time, no such instrument could be constructed, and it was not until 1959 that Dunn and Fry performed the first acoustic microscopy experiments, though not at very high frequencies. Today, Acoustography is a broad-area, near real-time ultrasonic imaging technique that provides an alternative to point- by-point UT.
Innovation
Acoustography differs from conventional ultrasonic testing in that test objects are inspected in full field, analogously to real time
x-ray imaging. The approach uses a novel, super high resolution large area acousto-optic (AO) sensor, which allows image formation through simple ultrasound shadow casting, analogous to x-ray image formation. This NDE approach offers significant inspection speed advantage over conventional point-by-point ultrasonic scanning procedures and is well-suited for high volume production. ACOUSTOGRAPHY developed by Dr Sandu is an ultrasound imaging method where a novel, super high-resolution 2D ultrasound detector (AO sensor) is used to produce instant x-ray-like ultrasound images.
Patent
Optical imager for birefringent detector acoustic imaging systems- https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2000022478A1/en
Acoustic imaging systems – United States Patent 5796003
Commercialisation
Santec systems is promoted by Dr Sandu.http://www.santecsystems.
com/
The basic components needed to perform Acoustography NDE are:
1) AO-Sensor (Imaging Screen); 2) Wand Transducer (ultrasound emitter); 3) Optical imager Detector. The Wand Transducer is swept across the part held over the AO sensor to form instant x-ray like ultrasound images of the part revealing anomalies in the test part.
The image formed on the AO sensor is viewed and digitally recorded using the Optical Imager.
The company offers ACOUSTOGRAPHY NDE as a standalone system, or as an add-on ACOUSTOGRAPHY NDE capability to existing C-scan systems. The small Table-Top system is perfect for the NDE
of composite parts and for providing near real-time monitoring of damage growth in coupons subject to load. And retrofit system package is perfect for providing add-on Acoustography NDE capability to customers with existing C-scan systems. Further fully- automated systems are perfect for the manufacturing floor, capable of enhancing inspection throughput by up to 10 times. In addition, ACOUSTOGRAPHY components can also be purchased, along with data electronics and software package, by customers desiring to build their own systems or wanting to retrofit components to have add-on ACOUSTOGRAPHY NDE capability to their C-scan systems.
Dr Pattanthu Rahman completed his Bachelor degree at PSG College, Coimbatore, Master and Doctorate degrees in Environmental Microbiology at Bharathiar University (Coimbatore) and Advanced Biomanufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals Course at the University of Cambridge. He then started his career as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Ulster (2000-01) with subsequent roles as a research Scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA (2001-02), an academic and enterprise researcher at Teesside University (2003-2018) and University of Portsmouth (2018 – 2020). Dr Rahman is now a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and Founder of TeeGene & TARA Biologics.
He has 25 years of academic experience in research, innovation, management, and commercialization. He has discovered novel bio surfactant producing bacteria and is the author of 70+ peer- reviewed journal articles and editor of three books on the topic of
Bio surfactants. He is a winner of Teesside University’s Enterprise Project of the year award.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prahman/
Technology
Biosurfactants refers to surfactants from microbial origin and can be synthesized by several identified microorganisms including bacteria, yeast and fungi. They display excellent surface activity and emulsification properties with very low toxicity and higher biodegradability features as compared to chemical counterparts.
They have also been found to be very effective at low concentrations and over a wide range of environmental conditions such as pH, temperature and salinity; better environmental compatibility, lower critical micelle concentration, higher selectivity, specific activity and the ability to be synthesized from renewable low cost resources.
There are five major categories of bio surfactants viz. glycolipids, phospholipids and fatty acids, lipopeptides and lipoproteins.
Polymeric biosurfactants, particulate biosurfactants have found applications in agricultural, pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, and detergent industries.
Innovation
Among the various categories of biosurfactants the glycolipid biosurfactants “rhamnolipids” stand apart. Rhamnolipids are highly applicable in various activities with some researchers advancing the technology from laboratory to higher scale. However, there still are very limited companies in the field which are producing biosurfactants at a marketable scale. TeeGene Biotech produces Rhamnolipids and Lipopeptides for Pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, antimicrobials and anti-cancer ingredients.
Patents
In 1984, the first patent for the production of rhamnolipids was filed by Kaeppeli and Guerra-Santos (US 4628030) and obtained in 1986 for their work on Pseudomonas aeruginosa DSM 2659.
Subsequently, Wagner et al. filed a patent (US 4814272) in 1985 for the biotechnical production of rhamnolipids from Pseudomonas sp. DSM 2874 and obtained the same in 1989.
Commercialisation
In 2013, the European Commission launched Bio Base NWE, a three-year and €6,2 million project to support the development of the biobased economy in North West Europe (NWE). Bio Base NWE successfully implemented an Innovation Coupon Scheme. A coupon represented a value of maximum €30.000 for feasibility studies and scale-up work undertaken at the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP), an independent, flexible, state-of–the-art demonstration facility in Ghent, Belgium, to validate innovative biobased technologies and scale them up to an industrial level.
TeeGene Biotech Ltd. (UK), a Teesside University spin-out venture, received a coupon to conduct feasibility studies to prove the technology platform. With insights from experts at Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant the biosurfactant scale-up work was successful, and the startup can manufacture biosurfactants at an industrial level.
Link: https://www.teegene.co.uk/
Singh Valia, USA
Dr. Harshan Singh Valia received his Masters in Applied Geology from Nagpur University and Masters in Geology from Bryn Mawr College and Ph.D.in Geology from Boston University. Dr. Valia has published 85 articles, contributed to 5 books (including Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel), chaired 30 National/International conferences, taught 20 courses worldwide, authored two patents, consulted to many industries around the world (especially extensively in China), and presently is a contributor to American Iron & Steel Institute’s web site www.steel.org under How Steel is Made?
He is the First Ever Indian and Second Ever Asian person to receive Iron & Steel Society’s Joseph Becker Award in 1991 (for distinguished achievement in Coal Technology) for his work on Coal Usage in Steel Industry. Dr. Valia was awarded Joseph Kapitan Award in 2006 (best paper) from the Association for Iron & Steel Technology on his work regarding unique properties of Indiana coals. He is also a recipient of the American Iron & Institute President’s Medal in 1990. These honors have brought him the distinction of the only Coal Scientist in the world to have received all the three awards offered by American Steel Industry related organizations.
Research
He entered the industrial world in 1979 as a research engineer at Inland Steel Co.’s research and development laboratories, East Chicago, Ind., USA. His initial work began with improving blast furnace performance/operation by finding ways to improve Coke Strength after Reaction (CSR) with CO2, which resulted in the development of a CSR predictive model. The model is successfully used to predict CSR from coal properties and helped increase CSR that resulted in performance and operation improvements at No. 7 blast furnace. During his career, Valia worked on a wide range of projects: coke behavior in the blast furnace utilizing blast furnace tuyere sampling; modification of Chinese beehive cokes for blast furnace usability; coal selection and blend design for heat recovery/non-recovery and slot oven coke making; research on carbonization behavior of coal in heat recovery/non-recovery and slot oven coke making; use of poor-quality (low-rank) coals in coke making; prediction of coking quality of coal reserves;
effect of oxidation on coke quality; new coke making technologies;
coal selection and coal behavior in blast furnace pulverized coal injection; and the use of additives in coke making, ironmaking and
Patents
Utilizing certain unique properties of Indiana coals, Dr. Valia, in collaboration with Allen Ellis and other scientists from Purdue University, earned a patent entitled “Multipurpose Coke Plant for Synthetic Fuel Production.” Such a process would result in not only production of coke for the steel industry but can also produce diesel oil, methane gas, hydrogen, fertilizer, and power.
Publication number: 20130008771, Filed: Sep 14, 2012, Publication Date: Jan 10, 2013, Patent Grant number: 9068123, Applicant: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, IN), Inventors: Robert A. Kramer (Crown Point, IN), Libbie S.W. Pelter (Schererville, IN), Harvey Abramowitz (Chicago, IL), Hardarshan S.
Valia (Highland, IN), Allen Ellis (Crown Point, IN) https://patents.justia.com/patent/20130008771
Consultancy
Dr. Valia, after retiring as a Staff Scientist from Arcelor Mittal (formerly Inland Steel Company), started his own consulting firm Coal Science Inc. and also jointly owns Coal science Laboratory in Gary, Indiana.
https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/energy/assets/pdfs/
cctr/presentations/RKramer-CCTR-09-06-07.pdf
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