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AnalogyFinder

Written by Brandon Klein | Mar 20, 2013 4:27:34 PM

Adapt inventions from other fields to solve your problems! To use, first enter your goal, e.g. reduce vibrations. Analogy Finder will first look up the synonyms of the verb and noun you entered. reduce: diminish, lessen, minimize, dampen, etc. vibrations: oscillations, perturbations, reverberations, pulsations, shimmies, etc.

Analogy Finder then performs all the searches in the U. S. Patent database and return all the hits. Most likely, an inventor from another field has used one of these phrases when describing their invention.