] Technically, Stephen Thaler has written more music than ] any composer in the world. He also invented the Oral-B ] CrossAction toothbrush and devices that search the ] Internet for messages from terrorists. He has discovered ] substances harder than diamonds, coined 1.5 million new ] English words, and trained robotic cockroaches. ] Technically. ] ] Thaler, the president and chief executive of Imagination ] Engines Inc. in Maryland Heights, gets credit for all ] those things, but he's really just "the man behind the ] curtain," he says. The real inventor is a computer ] program called a Creativity Machine. Computers that create patents |