Though overlooked in past generations due to gender inequality, women inventors are responsible for many of the world’s greatest products and innovations (for a sampling, visit InventHelp’s Famous Women Inventors Web site). To recognize the great strides and accomplishments of women inventors, InventHelp’s INPEX Invention Show honors one exhibitor each year with the Woman Inventor of the Year Award. The recipient of this award has a truly inventive and entrepreneurial spirit, representative of all the women inventors in attendance at INPEX.

We are proud to announce the 2008 INPEX Woman Inventor of the Year award was presented to:

Marlonia Ivy
Corona, Calif.

Marlonia Ivy invented an illumination system for homes and businesses called the “Morning Star Seasonal Lights”. The idea behind the invention is to simplify the process of holiday decorating and eliminate the unsightliness of festive lights left up well after the holiday season has passed.

“Seeing Christmas lights left up months after the holiday affected the overall appearance of our neighborhood,” said Ivy. “It was a real eye sore.”

Like any good inventor, Marlonia saw a problem and used her creative mind to solve it. Unlike traditional holiday lights, the Morning Star Lights are designed to remain safely and tactfully affixed to a home’s exterior all year round. This eliminates the hassle of mounting and removing holiday lights with the change of seasons. In addition, the lights can be set to blink to music, activate automatically when pedestrians and cars roll by or operated by remote control.

Congratulations to Marlonia Ivy for being named INPEX’s 2008 Woman Inventor of the Year!

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