An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means that becomes known as an invention. The word inventor comes from the 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. Although inventing is closely associated with science and engineering, inventors are not necessarily engineers nor scientists.[3]
See also
- Creativity
- History of science and technology
- Independent inventor
- Inventor's notebook
- Inventor (patent)
- Inventor's Day
- List of inventors
- Innovator
- Prolific inventors
- The heroic theory of invention and scientific development
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