Inventor

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

## References

1. ↑ inventor. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
2. ↑ invent. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
3. ↑ *Inventor. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 1 October 2017.

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