07.07.2020
24 Jun online, with the participation of representatives of Ukrpatent, the Chamber of Commerce of Ukraine and the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine the all-Ukrainian contest “Invention of the year-2020” was held. By the results of competition, patent No. 117868 “A method for diagnosing functional disturbances of nasal breathing” of the authors-scientists of the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Professor Oleg Avrunin, assistant Yana Nosova and the former graduates of the graduate school of the Department of Biomedical Engineering Tatiana Kononenko and co-authors who are the employees of the institution-partner of the BME Department – Department of otorhinolaryngology of the Kharkiv National Medical University team of Professor Anatoly Zhuravlev and associate professors Natalia Shushlyapina and Yuliya Kalashnik became the winner.
The patented method contains the results of many years of work of the author’s team in the field of creating means and technologies to increase the reliability of diagnostics of nasal breathing disorders.
In general, in 2020, 244 inventions were submitted for the competition, which are protected by Ukrainian patents for inventions issued during the last 5 years.