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For other uses, see Inventor (disambiguation).
An inventor is a person who creates or discovers new a method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form thee latin verb invenire, invent-, to find.[1][2] The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term, limited monopoly on inventions determined to be sufficiently novel, non-obvious, and useful. See Inventor (patent).
[ See also
- Creativity
- List of inventors
- History of science and technology
- Invention
- Inventor's notebook
- Inventor (patent)
- Inventor's Day
- The heroic theory of invention and scientific development