Detail Information about Janusz Liberkowski's Invention

Grief is Father of Invention

Grief is father of invention: baby car seat
By Julie Patel
Mercury News

Some inventions are born out of hard work and analytical thinking. Others strike like a bolt of lightning. Janusz Liberkowski's most recent invention came from love -- and grief.

His daughter, Annette Liberkowski, died in a car accident seven years ago.

``Losing your child is the worst pain in the world,'' said Liberkowski, 53, of Los Gatos. ``We felt helpless, like there was nothing we could do.''

That pain fueled a baby car seat that was voted Thursday the best invention on ABC's ``American Inventor'' television program. But Annette wasn't a baby; she was 21 and riding in a car on Highway 101 when it crashed into oncoming traffic. -----

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Janusz Liberkowski's past accolades:

Lattice interconnect method and apparatus for manufacturing multi-chip modules   5,691,209   November 25, 1997

 Signal-routing or interconnect substrate, structure and apparatus   5,623,160 April 22, 1997

 Roller skates for figure skating      4,618,158      October 21, 1986

 Interconnect structure having fuse or anti-fuse links between profiled apertures     6,506,981  January 14, 2003

 Method and apparatus for applying a gel    6,890,588    May 10, 2005

 Apparatus for holding a fiber array  6,823,127   Nasiri ,   et al.   Janusz (Intel Corp) November 23, 2004

Liberkowski patents cited on over 90 other patents