The Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic awarded the Technical University in Košice the Ján Bahýľ Prize for patent no. 288407 entitled Method of disposal of cyanobacteria in still waters and equipment for its implementation, whose originators are prof. Ing. Dusan Sebo, PhD., Dr. h. c. mult. prof. Ing. Miroslav Badida, PhD., Doc. Ing. Juraj Sebo, PhD. and Ing. Monika Fedorčáková, Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering TUKE.

Since 1999, the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic has been awarding the Ján Bahýľ Prize to Slovak originators and owners of patents, utility models and designs for their exceptional technical or design solutions in order to increase creativity in Slovakia.

The invention has also been patented in the United States, Canada and Japan.