Víctor Celorio


Víctor Celorio is an author, entrepreneur, inventor, and former union organizer. He is best known as the inventor of InstaBook, a digital printing technology. He lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.

Career

As an inventor, Celorio obtained patents for the technology popularly known as InstaBook or Book On Demand, as well as that of distributed printing technology in which a digital file is distributed among as many printing centers as required for immediate production and delivery.. On March 28, 2012, in decision number 2012-000170 the USPTO rejected some of the objections presented by a third party to Celorio patent 6,2137,03, and some of the patent's nineteen claims. Celorio decided to appeal to the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEDERAL CIRCUIT. And on 2013, seven claims of that patent were fully validated by the Federal Court of Appeals, and the patent itself declared valid.
In the late eighties, he created a digital network of print on demand centers around Mexico City, and in the nineties he founded InstaBook Corporation, a company to market the technology that became known as Print on Demand or Book on Demand.
In 2019 he received patent US 10406466, for a technology that uses kinetic energy to process massive amounts of urban air, to locate and separate the toxic particles known as PM2.5 and PM10 which have been found to be poison for every living being.
In 2018 he founded the nonprofit organization to deploy his technology in cities with contaminated urban air. After an initial test in 2017 in the city of León, in México, in June of 2019 his foundation installed in Mexicali, Baja California, -the worst contaminated city in Mexico- the first network of Urban Lungs in the world. That network is composed of 300 Residential Lungs -hosted by volunteers at their homes-, and 10 Solar Lungs, hosted by 10 of the most prestigious universities and colleges of the city. Since June this Urban Lung Network has been cleaning 3 million cubic meters of air each day, for a total of hundreds of millions of cubic meters of contaminated air to date and an effective reduction of a 35% in the amount of toxic particles PM2.5 and PM10 floating in the air of Mexicali at the end of October 2019, as was reported in a study presented to the California Air Resources Board by the head of the local nonprofit EconCiencia y Salud AC. The nonprofit Pulmon Urbano AC relied on independent and internationally well known companies such as PurpleAir and VisualAir, to show, in real time, the daily reduction of polluted air in Mexicali achieved by the Urban Lung Network.
Celorio is also a writer and publisher of several books. In an interview published in The Seybold Report, written by George A. Alexander, Victor Celorio described his love affair with books since he was a child. He knew he wanted to be a writer from the time he was 10 years old and he published his first short story at the age of 14 in a magazine called Al Sur del Sur.