Winners for the award honoring the outstanding inventors for their contribution towards the social, economic and technological progress have been announced today.

The awards this year were given away for the other five categories except the Popular Prize, which was bagged by José Luis Lopez Gomez from Spain for inventing a new wheel design that makes the passenger trains more comfortable and safe.

The Lifetime Achievement was given to Martin Schadt of Switzerland, who invented world's first flat-panel liquid crystal display (LCD). The award in the Industry category was won by Claus Hämmerle and Klaus Brüstle from Austrian firm Julius Blum for developing a damper system for soft closing doors, drawers and cabinets.

Pål Nyrén from Sweden was chosen for the award in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises category for invention of a faster, less complicated and cheaper method of sequencing DNA strands. Patrick Couvreur, Barbara Stella, Véronique Rosilio and Luigi Cattel grabbed the research category award for inventing nano-capsules.

Further, V. Bhatt, Bala Sudarshan Cadambi, Jeff Morriss, Shaun Knoll and Shelagh Callahan were honored among Non-European Countries category for creating Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology.

The ceremony to handover the European Inventor Award 2013 was attended by over 500 guests. It was held at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Among these guests was also Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands.