Winners of the latest inventors award in the philippines


Urine bag a winner in inventors' contest

By Jonathan M. Hicap, Reporter

A URINE bag, which turns urine into gel form, and a promising plant
source of biofuel were among the products and ideas that won in the
recent National Invention Contest of the Department of Science and
Technology.

Inventors Virgilio and Yasmin Galang's "Improved Urine Bag" was
chosen as the outstanding utility model. The bag is a substitute for
bedpans and urine bottles.

Their other invention, the patient side-turning hospital bed, also won
the first prize and P100,000 in the Tuklas Award (outstanding
invention). The invention works by turning a patient from his back to
his side.

Sibol Award for outstanding student creative research was won by the
Quezon City Science High School in the high-school category and Saint
Louis University in the college category. Each group received P30,000.

In the Likha Award (outstanding creative research), the top prize went
to Erlinda Sanqui and Rita Carmela Santiago's mangosteen fruit with
forest tea won in the food and nutrition category; Yasmin Espiritu's
P. guajava effervescing gynecological insert; Dr. Claro Santiago
Jr.'s production of high temperature tolerant agaricus mushroom in
lowland areas; James Fos Reamon's Rex compost tea brewer; and Philipp
Purino's modular impermanent housing system.

The World Intellectual Property Organization's Sibol Award went to a
group of researchers from the Saint Louis University which presented a
research on the potential of tiger grass stem extract in the production
of biofuel. Quezon City Science High School's research "Isolation
of the Leukemic Lymphocytotoxic Compound on Yellow-lipped Sea Krait
Venom" also won.

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