Announcement of Meunier, Carlin & Curfman Young Inventor's Award Winner

Congratulations to Scott Powers, who recently received the Meunier Carlin & Curfman Young Inventor's Award for the project Computer Vision Based 3D Printing Error Detection (S4005).

The Meunier, Carlin & Curfman Young Inventor's Award provides ten hours of legal assistance toward a patent application to middle or high school project demonstrating innovation and high likelihood of success in pursuit of a patent. Project constitutes patentable subject matter (process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any improvement thereof) and is novel, non-obvious, and useful. The Young Inventor's Award is part of the Patent Assistance for STEM Students (PASS) program, a program of the Georgia Science & Engineering Fair.

Founded by leading practitioners from long-established Intellectual Property firms, Meunier Carlin & Curfman focuses on the essential elements of IP legal practice. Meunier Carlin & Curfman’s clients benefit from the responsive personal service, minimal conflict issues and rate structure of a smaller firm. Yet, the team of patent attorneys and agents offers unrivaled skill, experience and depth of technical knowledge.

Recognition also goes to the following Award finalists:

• 1st Alternate: Yashua Evans - S3703 - The Amazing MYO

• 2nd Alternate: Ameya Jadhav - S4008 - Improving Skin Cancer Detection Through Deep Machine Learning

• Finalist: Rebekah Dorminy - S3705 - Collision Alert Device: Sensing Potentially Harmful Foot Impacts

• Finalist: Liesel Fazekas - S3806 - A Mechanism to Decrease Rotational Falls in Equestrian Eventing

• Finalist: Abhijeet Ghosh - J1801 - Recycling with AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Robotics