Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. Although some inventors may also be scientists, most of them are engineers in fact as they base their work on the discoveries of other scientists, experimenting with practical applications and combinations of those discoveries, and with improvements and combinations of existing devices, to create new useful devices.

Inventorship is a key determination in establishing patent rights. 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. In the U.S. the patent right originates from the intellectual property clause of the Constitution.

The capacity to invent can be developed. See TRIZ, the theory of inventive problem-solving.

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Etymology

The word "inventor" comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find. [1][2]

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Inventors clubs

Inventors clubs provide a support infrastructure for inventors, especially useful for lone inventors who otherwise may not have anyone impartial they can freely talk to about their inventions.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of such clubs around the world (see also national associations or local UK clubs on WRTI Clubs, the web site of the Wessex Round Table of Inventors).

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