Ingenuity vs Invent - What's the difference?

As a noun ingenuity

is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.

to design a new process or mechanism.

(en-noun)

The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.

The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.

Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .

Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.

Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.

*, II.17:

And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.

(en verb)

To design a new process or mechanism.

After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.

To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.

We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.

(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:

Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].

* fangle * discover

* * 1000 English basic words