Patent

(noun.) a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.

(noun.) an official document granting a right or privilege.

(verb.) make open to sight or notice; 'His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him'.

(verb.) obtain a patent for; 'Should I patent this invention?'.

(verb.) grant rights to; grant a patent for.

(adj.) (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage; 'patent ductus arteriosus' .

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• His first United States patent, No. 174,465, was granted March 7, 1876, and his second January 30, 1877, No. 186,787. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Many special tools, particularly those designed for _bicycle work_, have been devised, as exhibited by patent to Hillman, August 11, 1891, No. 457,718. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It was filed in the Patent Office a few days later, but was not issued as a patent until August 30, 1887. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And on the question of pumps versus patent-leather Oxfords his authority had never been disputed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He filed an application for a patent and entered into a conspiracy to 'swear back' of the date of my invention, so as to deprive me of it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Page in accordance with his subsequent patent of 1854, drew a train of cars from Washington to Bladensburg at a rate of nineteen miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Thus in January, 1880, his first patent application for a System of Electrical Distribution was signed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He was determined to make a fortune out of cotton-spinning, and he did, in spite of the loss of his patents, and the rivals who were always pursuing him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• From that time until 1865 many patents were granted, none of which may be considered successful. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Some of Edison's most remarkable inventions are revealed in a number of interesting patents relating to the duplication of phonograph records. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Phelps, another investigator, who had been experimenting along the same lines and had taken out several patents. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Nearly 5,000 United States patents have been granted in the class of weaving. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Then came Julius Griffith, in 1821, of Brompton, who patented a steam carriage which was built by Joseph Bramah, one of the ablest mechanics of his time. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This was patented in the United States June 2, 1863, No. 38,789, and in Great Britain, No. 900, of 1864. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Tainter, who in 1886 patented in the United States means of cutting or engraving the sound waves in a solid body. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Denis Johnson patented in England in 1818 a similar vehicle which he named the Pedestrian Curricle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In Fig. 282 is given a section and plan view of the Greener mechanism, which was patented July 6, 1880, No. 229,604, and was one of the first guns of this kind put on the market. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1807 he patented in England detonating powder and pellets which were used for artillery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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