InvenSpan: Creative
Providing creative power for your venture. InvenSpan takes takes gaps and teases them into advantages.Honors
The principal, Andy Van Brocklin, has been honored as a top inventor and technology creative in HP Imaging and printing. This is recognition of his role in providing differentiation to that business. Known by some managers in the business as a “rock star creative” for his ability to produce technology solutions that solve key problems.
The principal’s solutions bridge key gaps to make the company’s ideas into products. Andy is known for working easily with different disciplines to try some unusual but often effective experiments. These often lead to a lower cost and higher performance solution for the product.
Performance
Original electronic solutions for novel devices and systems, provided across multiple business areas and successfully delivered in products.
InvenSpan has a special recipe to get creative results. Careful use of divergent thinking, while working with team expertise, this tends to drive the client’s needed advancement of their technology.
A great example is the fluid sensing solutions described in the Principal’s patent applications. These solve multiple issues of device performance sensing plus fluid composition sensing, all at a very low cost. A big advantage for the owner of this IP!
Results
Using PatInsights, the principal’s patent portfolio is valued at $377M of assignee company profit contribution. This is a measure of the importance of this portfolio to the companies who own the patents (the “assignee”).