Inventor
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
One who finds out or contrives some new thing; one who devises some new art, manufacture, mechanical appliance or process; one who invents a patentable contrivance.
See Sparkman v. Higgins, 22 Fed. Cas. 879; Henderson v. Tompkins (C. Ct) 60 Fed. 764