a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention;
an official document granting a right or privilege;
make open to sight or notice; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him";
obtain a patent for; "Should I patent this invention?";
grant rights to; grant a patent for;
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;
(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage; "patent ductus arteriosus";
