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patent
What does patent mean?
patent (noun): a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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/ˈpætənt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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What does “patent” mean?
a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
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