1.a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
2.an official document granting a right or privilege
3.(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage;
patent ductus arteriosus
4.clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses;
the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields
1.obtain a patent for;
Should I patent this invention?
2.grant rights to; grant a patent for
3.make open to sight or notice;
His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him