Knowvention Helps Protect Your Innovation

Many Inventors start this process by going to a patent attorney, but they should begin with an Engineer. Before you spend filing fees and pay a lawyer for an incomplete idea, Knowvention offers services to ensure your idea is complete and ready for the patent office.

Knowvention practices engineering with Intellectual Property development ever in mind. We are adept at synthesizing prior art concerns up front in the process so that tricky patents don’t become a problem too late in the game.

Our in depth use of multiple methodologies for gaining insight into just how things work and our ability to gain control over critical parameters leads to breakthrough solutions that change the game for our customers.  Superior solutions are what create barriers to entry and make it all worth while.

Knowvention can help clients, big and small, answer some fundamental questions:

• Why should you patent your idea, is there a market?
• When should you apply for a patent?
• What are you patenting?
• Is your idea really new?
• Will it work like you think it will?

Contact us today to discuss what Knowvention can do for you

Knowvention delivers Answers not just Analysis.

Decisions made early in a product's lifecycle have profound influence on it's success or failure. Accurate knowledge at this stage offers the greatest power in delivering innovation while reducing time and cost.

To make the best decisions, you need access to the best tools and personnel to develop accurate knowledge around your product or process.  You need a complete solution.

Knowvention is that complete solution – a combination of technology, advanced development techniques and experts who have a proven record of innovation – to help you develop winning answers to your most demanding questions.

Whether serving as consultants or as an integrated part of your product development team, our experts look at the big picture along with our client’s vision and goals to help ensure all decisions drive toward delivery of timely, real-world business solutions that get superior products to the marketplace.

Knowvention Experts have served in a variety of industries:

• Medical Devices
• Consumer Products
• Food Industry
• Power Tools
• Transportation
• Aerospace
• Materials

Founder and President of Knowvention

As the Founder and President of Knowvention, Kevin Harper has a Vision to offer world-class engineering and technology expertise to Fortune 500 companies, Small and Mid-sized businesses, Entrepreneurs, and Individual Inventors.

With more than 38 years of experience in product development, Kevin brings a well-rounded, problem-solving approach to every project. Using the latest technology in virtual product development, Kevin offers proven techniques that save R&D time and budgets while delivering real-world solutions.

Kevin has worked in product development and engineering roles for Fortune 500 companies with products in medical devices and transportation. He excelled in those positions and is a Johnson & Johnson Standards of Leadership Award winner. He holds 23 US and foreign patents and applications with multiple patent publications.  He has demonstrated product innovation results across multiple industries on a wide array of projects.

Kevin was co-founder and co-chair of the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technologies’ Computational Methods & Simulation subcommittee. This subcommittee helped develop advanced simulation technology and processes for Johnson & Johnson's family of companies.  The group spanned multiple sectors including consumer, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals and Kevin provided internal consulting across these J&J companies.

Kevin's Virtual Prototyping and Simulation experience includes advanced analytical techniques and applications involving:

• Biomechanics
• Dynamics
• Contact Mechanics
• Coupled Physics
• Tissue Modeling
• Computer-aided Design

Kevin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and earned a Master’s Degree in Engineering Mechanics/Biomechanics from the University of Cincinnati, where he is now an adjunct professor teaching Introduction to Biotechnology. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) with the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and Ohio Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE).

Utilizing the best tools for your project

Successful innovations require the marriage of knowledgeable and experienced engineers to the best tools available. That’s why Knowvention engineers believe clients shouldn’t be tied to a specific Computer Aided Design - CAD - or Computer Aided Engineering - CAE - software program.  We believe that each of these tools has their purposes, and we have experience with the leading industry programs.

For clients who have already made a technology investment, we are prepared to utilize existing CAD and or CAE software and maximize its effectiveness for your project.  For companies and individuals who do not have a preference for the development platform, we recommend an approach based on your projects needs and the strengths and weaknesses of the available tools.

Knowvention has experience with the following Computer Aided Engineering and Design (CAE and CAD) tools:

• Ls-Dyna
• Abaqus
• Ansys
• Comsol Multiphysics
• Tecplot
• Working Model
• IDEAS
• NX
• SolidWorks