Patent ¹

Definition: Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

Patent ²

Definition: Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

Patent ³

Definition: Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.

Patent ⁴

Definition: Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

Patent ⁵

Definition: A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

Patent ⁶

Definition: A writing securing to an invention.

Patent ⁷

Definition: A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

Patent ⁸

Definition: The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

Patent ⁹

Definition: To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

patent ¹⁰

Definition: a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

patent ¹¹

Definition: an official document granting a right or privilege

patent ¹²

Definition: make open to sight or notice; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"

patent ¹³

Definition: obtain a patent for; "Should I patent this invention?"

patent ¹⁴

Definition: grant rights to; grant a patent for

patent ¹⁵

Definition: clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reac

patent ¹⁶

Definition: (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage; "patent ductus arteriosus"