PATENT

Definition of PATENT

  1. (verb)obtain a patent for
  2. (verb)grant rights to; grant a patent for
  3. (verb)make open to sight or notice
  4. (noun)a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  5. (noun)an official document granting a right or privilege
  6. (adj)(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
  7. (adj)clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment