Inventor
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who finds out something new, or who contrives or produces a thing which did not before exist; one who makes an invention. The word is generally used to denote the author of such contrivances as are by law patentable.
See Invention.