Patent ID: 8229871

Claim:
A device-readable non-transitory medium holding device-readable instructions for a method of aiding in the process of inventing, the method comprising the steps of: inputting a baseline entity by defining one or more objects, materials and, optionally, configurations that make up said baseline entity, wherein said defining is achieved by selecting each of said one or more objects, materials and configurations from one or more databases, said databases including a plurality of objects, materials and configurations, independently applying one or more morphs to one or more of said objects, materials and configurations to produce one or more morphed baseline entities, the morphs selected from a database comprising a plurality of morphs; optionally applying morphs to one or more of the objects, materials and configurations of one or more of the produced morphed baseline entities to produce additional morphed baseline entities; and generating a specific embodiments database comprising all of the morphed baseline entities and additional morphed baseline entities produced, wherein said databases including a plurality of objects, materials, configurations and morphs are hierarchical and wherein at least one of the objects, material, morphs, or configurations available for defining or application to at least a portion of a baseline entity is temporarily reduced in number by filter criterion inputted by a user.