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).

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• 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

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