Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

an official document granting a right or privilege

obtain a patent for

• “Should I patent this invention?”

grant rights to; grant a patent for

make open to sight or notice

• “His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him”

(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage

• “patent ductus arteriosus”

clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• “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 reactionary”
• “in plain view”