Innovation Sprints & Invention Mining: Your Inventions Already Exist

Your inventions are hiding in roadmaps, architecture decisions, workflow shortcuts, and performance optimizations. Your team invented solutions without realizing they were patentable. Innovation Sprints harvest and structure them.

But we go further than typical invention mining firms, which tag what already exists and move on. Inventiply’s Innovation Sprints surface what exists, score it for value and defensibility, route it toward broadening or protection decisions, and produce drafting-ready outputs — so invention capture doesn’t depend on memory, charisma, or quarterly panic.

How Innovation Sprints Work

We install a repeatable pipeline: harvest ideas, triage for highest ROI, convert to IP. We show you how to surface latent inventions, score them, route them toward the right protection method (patents, copyrights, trade secrets), and produce structured disclosures.

Gary Shuster — On Sprints and Marathons: “People love the term ‘sprints’ because it sounds great. But innovation can take forever until it happens all at once. Much of the time the hard part is figuring out what problem needs to be solved, while the solution itself is pretty easy to develop. The sprint works well in inventor groups, bouncing ideas around. But when they go home and one sees something in an article the next month, it could trigger the true breakthrough. So it’s really Innovation Sprints plus winning the Innovation Marathon. And lots of innovation ‘experts’ will tell you there is no ‘Eureka’ moment. That’s wrong. There is a Eureka moment, but it happens when all the work your subconscious has done connecting things suddenly reaches your conscious thought.”

What Makes Inventiply’s Approach Different

Typical invention miners search for what exists within the team’s stated domain. If you’re working on an electrical engineering problem, they harvest electrical engineering inventions. But innovation doesn’t respect silos. A breakthrough in one area can have utility in entirely unrelated fields.

Gary Shuster — On Confirmation Bias in Invention Mining: “If I invent a substance that keeps helium from escaping through balloon walls, I’m going to look for balloon-like infringers. But the claim reads: ‘A composite substance capable of slowing the flow of small atoms or molecules through the composite substance.’ A non-inventor looks at that claim and thinks: Where else do people need to limit the escape of small atoms? Medical uses. Rocket seals. Wearables. The inventor would always be thinking ‘balloon.’ We break that confirmation bias systematically.”

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