The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor

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Fuel your "Eureka!" moments and become a successful inventor

Envision breakthrough new products using the proven methods and applied reasoning techniques of today's successful inventors. The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor lays out a systematic approach to innovation. Discover how to look at social developments and trends to find new ways of combining and improving existing technologies and systems. Plain-language examples of real-world patents, products, and inventors illuminate each point along the way.

Find out how to:

• Gain regular flashes of inspiration based on your understanding of the inventive process
• Improve and expand existing products in ways that fill social needs
• Fuse elements from different products into new and useful combinations
• Discover new opportunities by side-stepping rules and gaming the system
• "Futurize" your inventions and prevent them from becoming obsolete
• Identify emerging regulations and use them to your creative advantage
• Learn about comprehensive patent applications that protect your rights

John Hershey has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and has been granted 134 US Patents. He has served the adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Union College, Schenectady, New York. Dr. Hershey also served five years as a Program Evaluator for ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). He is an elected Fellow of the IEEE and the author/co-author of seven books, including Cryptography Demystified (McGraw-Hill, 2002). Dr. Hershey was the co-founder and was co-editor-in-chief (1991-1993) of Academic Press’ Digital Signal Processing.