INVENTO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something.
       2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued 
  to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is 
  not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that case the 
  suggestion must be of the specific process or machine; for a general 
  theoretical suggestion, as that steam might be applied to the navigation of 


  the air or water, without pointing out by what specific process or machine 
  that could be accomplished, would not be such a suggestion as to deprive the 
  person to whom it had been made from being considered as the inventor. Dav. 
  Pat. Cas. 429; 1 C. & P. 558; 1 Russ. & M. 187; 4 Taunt. 770; B ut see 1 M. 
  G. & S. 551; 3 Man. Gr. & Sc. 97. 
       3. The applicant for a patent must be both the first and original 
  inventor. 4 Law Report. 342.