As part of its investment into its innovative culture of research and development, Nidec Motor Corporation continues to implement its annual Intellectual Property Award Program. The Award Program is designed to encourage inventors to invent and to submit their inventions for patent consideration. The Award Program includes monetary awards and other recognitions such as patent award plaques, trophies for prolific status, and an annual award ceremony for patent activity. The Award Program further recognizes inventors who receive their 10th patent, 20th patent and 30th patent. This Award program also recognizes first time patent filers.
Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, our diligent NMC engineers and researchers continued to develop patentable inventions. Below is the list of patent awardees for 2020 and 2021, including links to some of the patents.
| 2020 Grants | 2021 Grants |
| Lunjie Lu Michael W. Major Marc J. Corcoran Mark Emanuel Ryan M. Bastien Chetan O. Modi Douglas D. Glenn James L. Skinner Anandan C. Velayutham William D. Moore Philip S. Johnson Paul G. Michaels Hector Hernandez John H. Hussey Tarris A. Reed Ryan Timothy Wade Morgan Jeremy Silvey Robert J. Ploof Jr. Donald R. Mertens Bret. S. Clark |
Steven R. Palmer |
| 2020 First Time Filers | 2021 First Time Filers |
|
Robert T. Back |
Jeremy Beck |
| 2020 Prolific Inventors | 2021 Prolific Inventors |
| Michael W. Major – 10th Douglas Glenn – 10th Ryan Bastien – 10th Christopher Schock – 20th Paul G. Michaels – 30th |
Raymond Heilman – 10th |