Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Inventions in 2018

Rigorous peer-review is the corner-stone of high-quality academic publishing. The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who contributed their knowledge and expertise to the journal’s editorial process over the past 12 months. In 2018, a total of 75 papers were published in the journal, with a median time to first decision of 19 days and a median time to publication of 42 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their cooperation and dedication in 2018:

Abbes, Boussad	Koukopoulos, Dimitrios
Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi, Mohammad Yaghoub	Krastev, Vesselin Krassimirov
Abu-Mahfouz, Issam	Kudryashova, Tatiana V.
Aggogeri, Francesco	Lanzola, Giordano
Agudo, Antonio	Lazaroiu, George Cristian
Ampatzis, Konstantinos	Lazarou, Stavros
Andrysiak, Tomasz	Lee, Boon Giin
Anvar, Amir M.	Lee, Jihoon
Arogeti, Shai	Lee, Young II
Artero Guerrero, Jose Alfonso	Leo, Marco
Assante, Dario	Li, Weijie
Bar-Kohany, Tali	Li, Zheng
Barnes, Frank S.	Li, Zida
Barreto, Carlos	Liang, Yucang
Baumann, Felix W.	Lin, Tzu-Kang
Bianchi, Giuseppe	Liu, Chien-Hung
Bilodeau, Michel	Liu, Minglu
Birkett, Martin	Liu, Xuqing
Bleichner, Martin	Losada-Perez, Patricia
Block, Stephan	Lucchi, Elena
Bonnema, Gerrit Maarten	Lundstrom, Brian Nils
Bonvoisin, Jérémy	Luo, Xiaowei
Borkowski, Piotr	Maalouf, Azar
Cafolla, Daniele	MacDonald, Brendan D.
Cano, Antonio	Mansour, Rabih
Capasso, Clemente	Martins, Rafael M.
Carrascal Lekunberri, Edorta	Mavromatidis, Lazaros
Cesano, Federico	Méndez, Alexis
Chai, Rifai	Meng, Fanben
Chen, Nai-Hua	Miller, Boris
Chen, Yung-Yu	Minami, Yoichi
Cheng, Lin	Minea, Alina Adriana
Cheung, Howard	Mishra, Neeraj
Chiu, Justin N.W.	Mobasheri, Amin
Chuang, Chun-Te	Moita, Ana Sofia
Chui, Hsiang-Chen	Moonem, M.A.
Chun, Honggu	Mourtzis, Dimitris
Cintuglu, Mehmet H.	Mousas, Christos
Citterio, Daniel	Munari, Marco
Cochrane, Cédric	Nadagouda, Mallikarjuna
Cowart, James	Nelatury, Sudarshan
Cronin, Matthew	Nguyen, Duy-Dinh
Cuesta, Eduardo	Ni, Kai
Dai, Weihui	Nuchkrua, Thanana
Dal Palù, Doriana	Oćwieja, Magdalena
De Santis, Michele	Oliveira, Ricardo
Delepine-Lesoille, Sylvie	Ondiege, Brian
Ding, Wenbo	Oprea, Simona
Dinis, Maria De Lurdes Proença De Amorim	Ożadowicz, Andrzej
Eames, Ian	Papalou, Angeliki
Eberle, Ulrich	Pearce, Joshua
Echeverría, Alberto	Penhaker, Marek
Eilts, Peter	Pierno, Matteo
El Moumen, A.	Poncet, Sébastien
Elara, Rajesh	Prieto, Jesús-Ignacio
Fernandez-Garcia, Raul	Qin, Zhan
Fidan, Ismail	Que, Long
Fini, Stefano	Quero, Giuseppe
Fischer, Georg	Rae, Colin
Flores-Arias, Jose-Maria	Rajapandiyan, Panneerselvam
Foulds, Lan	Ramos, Juan Carlos
Fox, Stephen	Rao, Ashwin
Frank, Andrew A.	Rawassizadeh, Reza
Funfschillin, Denis	Rhi, Seok-Ho
Gams, Andrej	Rho, Hoon Suk
García, Marcelo V.	Ruffin, Paul
García, Steven Iglesias	Saboori, Abdollah
Gheorghiu, Razvan Andrei	Šafarič, Riko
Ghiani, Emilio	Sarrias-Mena, Raúl
Giannatsis, John	Savitski, Dzmitry
Grijalvo, Santiago	Sayed, Khairy
Gubin, Denis	Schauer, Caroline L.
Guo, Qiuquan	Schmittner, Christoph
Guo, Shuangzhuang	Servati, Amir
Hayase, Masanori	Shah, Pratikkumar
Hazari, Md. Rifat	Shibahara, Makoto
He, Hongliang	Shieh, Hsin-Jang
Hedvičáková, Martina	Sioris, Christopher
Heinzel, Carsten	Soman, Rohan
Helseth, Lars	Song, Ran
Hitzler, Leonhard	Starace, Giuseppe
Holade, Yaovi	Sthal, Fabrice
Horvatić, Davor	Świderski, Waldemar
Hrad, Jaromir	Szczecinski, Nicholas
Hren, Alenka	Talebi, Mohammadmahdi
Hsu, Yu-Liang	Tang, William C.
Hu, Yihua	Tanyeri, Melikhan
Hughes, Dana	Tappa, Karthik
Huo, Dehong	Thakur, Sidharth
Isalgue, Antonio	Todeschini, Grazia
Ishida, Tadashi	Tudoroiu, Nicolae
Jafari, Soheil	Uber, Richard
Jaganathan, Arun	Uslar, Mathias
Jha, Nand	Van Der Meer, Th.H.
Joutsijoki, Henry	Varghese Chacko, Jenu
Ju, Zhaojie	Vinagre, Eugénia
Kaipa, Krishnanand N.	Viola, Fabio
Kano, Mitsunobu	Ware, Andrew
Karperien, Audrey L.	White, Martin
Kashaninejad, Navid	Wieringa, Fokko
Khan, Muhammad	Wu, Yik-Chung
Kolasiński, Piotr	Yu, Zeta
Korczyk, Piotr M.	Zeni, Luigi
Kotter, Richard	Zhang, Weixing