Maybe someone needs to invent a USB-based thumb drive reader that only allows generic mass storage devices to be attached but does not work as a hub, rather as a proxy device.
Bonus points: don't mount the drive directly, instead connect it to a centralised server on the corporate network that scans for threats and mounts a sanitised version of the drive's contents as a network share.
Triple word score: audit everything contained on every drive and everything that is copied on and off.
Sell that for $200 per unit to Fortune 500 companies and paranoid government agencies worldwide... and you'll retire early.