The phrase "inventive person" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is creative and capable of coming up with new ideas or solutions.
Example: "As an inventive person, she always finds unique ways to solve problems at work."
Alternatives: "creative individual" or "innovative thinker."
In the middle of a field, some inventive local person had used aluminum tubing to fashion what looked like a dinosaur skeleton.
Luckily, the book complements a current exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, so readers who cannot find a copy can see Ms. Ruttenberg's mystical and inventive works in person at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street — and maybe take in a bit of nearby Central Park on the way.
People say, "Why isn't Jony the C.E.O.? If he's the most important thing, why isn't he the C.E.O.?" Tim Cook is doing for Jony what he did for Steve Jobs, which is take away the responsibility of the day-to-day management and free him up to be an inventive, creative product person.
It paints a portrait of an irrepressible, energetic, inventive, and unusually driven person.
Elizabeth embodies a comic law of the novel: the more inventive and intuitive a person is, the more pregnant her actions will be and the greater her charm, in the deepest sense of that word.
Openness, or being open to experience, is used to describe a person who is inventive, curious, and open emotionally.
Holding that invention is the source of all progress, Tarde believed that perhaps 1 person in 100 is inventive.
In the novels, the tools of fiction provide these answers: third-person narration, rich description, and inventive and dense interior monologue, which often takes the form of spiralling stream of consciousness.
The prize will go "to the person with the funniest and most inventive ideas for how TheDC should repay this jerk," according to the site.
For a patent to be granted the inventive step involved must not be "obvious" to a skilled person in the area.
