Why is Ajay Bhatt an important name in Indian IT?

          Ajay Bhatt is a computer architect best known for developing the USB (Universal Serial Bus), the cable used to connect different devices. He also invented the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and the PCI Express. Altogether, this Indian- American owns more than 130 patents.

          Bhatt was born in 1957 in India, and lived here till his completion of graduation at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He then moved to the US and obtained a masters from the City University of New York. In 1990, he joined Intel as a senior staff architect after which he designed the devices and technologies. He was part of the chipset architecture team in Folsom, California.

          For his contributions, Bhatt has won several awards including the Achievement in Excellence Award in 2002 for the PCI Express specification development. In 2013, he received the Outstanding Achievement in Science & Technology Award at The Asian Awards in London. The same year he won the Europe an Inventor Award too, in the Non-European countries category. The award is institute by the European Patent Office.