The Smart Ball Tech Inside Your INSAIT JOY Was Just Spotlighted by WIPO

You might not think about patents when you’re dribbling, juggling, or trying to beat your toe-tap record. But behind every touch you make with an INSAIT JOY Smart Football is years of research and protected innovation. Recently, that innovation received a unique nod from an unexpected source: the United Nations.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – a UN agency with 193 member states that oversees global intellectual property systems – just published its Technology SPARK Report on Sports Technology. In a chapter dedicated to “Smart equipment and intelligent materials,” the report puts a spotlight on an early smart ball patent filed by Gengee, the company behind INSAIT JOY. WIPO identified this invention as one of the pioneering steps in smart ball technology, using patent analysis to map how sports equipment is evolving.

So, what exactly did they notice?

A patent that predicted where football tech was heading

The spotlighted patent (WO 2016/206413 A1, titled “Smart ball and system thereof”) was first published in December 2016. At the time, putting advanced sensors inside a football and making the data useful for everyday players was a genuinely tough problem. Existing gadgets couldn’t effectively capture movement in high-intensity play. There was no clean way to link a player’s specific skills and training load to consistent, meaningful data.

Gengee’s solution, now refined and living inside every INSAIT JOY Smart Football, was a ball that combined a six-axis inertial sensor, precise time-stamping, wireless communication, and positioning base stations. The goal? To achieve high-precision, low-power data collection that could actually help athletes improve. The WIPO report describes it plainly: a system that captures motion and positioning data, supporting “data-driven athlete training and performance analysis.”

From patent paper to your backyard pitch

What does a 2016 patent have to do with the Smart Football you can order today? Everything. The core idea – embedding smart, connected, real-time motion sensing into a ball that talks to an app – is exactly what makes the INSAIT JOY experience possible. When you run a juggle drill, practice hat dance, or challenge yourself with toe taps, the sensor inside is tracking your touches and ball control quality. The app then turns that into clear feedback, progress tracking, and game-like challenges that keep you motivated.

This is a direct line from a well-protected invention to a product that helps young players and amateurs train more intelligently. You get a digital coach that never gets tired, built on a foundation that a UN agency found notable enough to include in a global study on the future of sports.

Join the data-driven game

The full WIPO report is a fascinating read if you want to see where sports tech is heading. (You can access it here.) And if you’re interested in feeling that future under your own feet, it’s already waiting inside the INSAIT JOY Smart Football.

Ready to train with a ball that literally has UN-documented innovation behind it? Check out the Smart Football here and see what your data looks like.