Wow ... it's difficult. Satoshis to get to the final result, had to rely on previous work of other people.

Then I would say that Satoshi came to gather all the pieces and order them to shape what we know as Bitcoin. I suppose, that possibly he must have created connections between those pieces to be able to put everything together and in the end achieve what their before.

I would say that I could use both words to describe what happened ... since Bitcoin consists of both aspects.

There were people who discovered some aspects, and other aspects were invented and the whole of all that work of years ended up shaping what we know as the Bitcoin protocol