[
US
/ˈpætənt/
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ADJECTIVE
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clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
it is plain that he is no reactionary
evident hostility
the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields
in plain view
a palpable lie
a palpable lie
manifest disapproval
made his meaning plain
patent advantages -
(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
patent ductus arteriosus
NOUN
- a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
- an official document granting a right or privilege
VERB
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obtain a patent for
Should I patent this invention? -
make open to sight or notice
His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him - grant rights to; grant a patent for
How To Use patent In A Sentence
- In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
- He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
- Saint – Germain, the king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the Parliament. Les Miserables
- It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
- In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on an apparatus for signalling and communicating called a Photophone.
- In 1867 he patented this material under the name dynamite.
- The patent lists six inventors who worked on the system.
- Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
- Automatic Rear Pincer Turning : Patented design, easy adjustment on turning angle.
- In 2004, when Merck's brand of simvastatin, known as Zocor, was about to go off patent, Merck teamed up with Schering-Plough to produce a new patented product called Vytorin, a combination of simvastatin and Zetia. Zetia: Down for the count?
