Invention Arts

Ron Martinez is a longtime innovator in media, commerce, and intellectual property. He’s a prolific inventor with more than sixty patents, and former global Vice President, Intellectual Property Innovation for Yahoo! Inc., where over a four year period he led the development of an industry-scale, forward-looking patent portfolio covering what proved to be a wide range of fundamental mobile, social, and media technologies and applications. See some of the results of that work here.

A pioneering inventor and product innovator, Ron Martinez is Principal at Invention Arts, and Headcanon, LLC, a product and IP development company focused on generative AI. He is the creator of platforms such as Personify, enabling brands to launch AI-powered Personas for marketing and sales, Headcanon, a creator marketplace for richly characterized AI storytelling and world creation, and VuFonic, a personal and e-commerce music creation platform powered by AI. Previously, he founded Aer.io—a decentralized book commerce platform acquired by Ingram.