Who Is Invengen?

The competitive advantage of companies today is linked to two important factors: the ability to generate intellectual property (patents, trade secrets), and the ability to quickly capitalize on it ¹. InvenGen can help clients solve tough product and process challenges and at the same time provide intellectual property posturing and portfolio strategies that give them the freedom they need to practice designs and move quickly to meet their specific business objectives. We do this by helping you frame technical problems in a functional way so possible solutions can be sought from past problem solving, in many cases from other industries. Solutions are validated by engaging experts with extensive practical and theoretical engineering and scientific experience in many subject areas.

Based in Reading, PA, InvenGen Engineering, LLC. is a technology-development consulting firm that works with business and technical leaders, manufacturing directors, product development teams, heads of marketing and other executives to find the right technology to help them attain their financial objectives. The technology InvenGen has developed for our clients has significantly improved their technical foothold allowing them to stay competitive in their markets.

A key tool we use in this innovation process is TRIZ which is an innovation method that reliably predicts product and technology evolutions, and determines the right problems to solve in overcoming production and other technical barriers to developing new products. TRIZ is an inventive process created by the late Genrich Altshuller, a patent examiner in the Russian Navy in the late 1940s who studied 200,000 patents and identified the technical or physical contradictions that those patents addressed. TRIZ (the Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) also identifies trends in the ways that new technologies evolve over time, which gives companies a powerful tool for predicting future products.

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