Meet the 2022 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees

2022 Living Inductees
R. Rox Anderson

Laser Dermatology

Sylvia Blankenship

1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness
Dana Bookbinder

Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Marian Croak

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Technology
Raffaello D’Andrea

Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Ming-Jun Li

Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Lisa Lindahl

Sports Bra
Lonnie Johnson

Super Soaker®
James McEwen

Automatic Surgical Tourniquet
Hinda Miller

Sports Bra
Mick Mountz

Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Edward Sisler

1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness
Polly Smith

Sports Bra
Pushkar Tandon

Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Margaret Wu

Synthetic Lubricants
Peter Wurman

Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment

2022 Historical Inductees
James Abercrombie

Blowout Preventer (BOP)
Stewart Adams

Ibuprofen
Patricia Bath

Laserphaco Cataract Surgery
Carl Benz

Modern Automobile
Evelyn Berezin

Computer Systems for Business Use
Edward W. Bullard

Hard Hat

Harry Cameron

Blowout Preventer (BOP)
James Buchanan Eads

American Infrastructure and Defense
John Nicholson

Ibuprofen
Floyd Smith

Modern Parachute
Frank Zybach

Center-Pivot Irrigation

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