TRIZ was developed by Dr. Genrikh S. Altshuller, a brilliant Russian inventor.

His work began in the late 1940s when he systematically studied and catalogued patents looking for principles of innovation.

His intent was to learn how to apply these principles methodically to increase a problem solver's creativity and efficiency.

The "inventive principles" he developed helped him formulate the "Laws of Evolution of Engineering Systems." These laws help solve paradoxical engineering problems quickly and without compromise.

Altshuller also discovered that the laws of evolution could be used to develop future product scenarios and then to solve any problems with those predicted products. From these findings, Altshuller developed an extensive, scientifically-based problem solving method which codifies numerous inventive principles, and incorporates the laws of engineering system evolution.

These inventive principles and laws of evolution have been unknown and overlooked by engineers, until now!