How to Use patent in a Sentence

patent

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  • The product is protected by patent.
  • Ross also held a patent on the nets the league used for years.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • The duo designed the prototype and worked to get a patent.
    — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The two Ford patents received approval in the past week.
    — Mihir Maddireddy, Car and Driver, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Two of their patents have been approved and six more are pending.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The patent black bottle is shaped like a word bubble with the phrase Vibes splashed across the front.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2018
  • The patent was filed last August and made public a few days ago.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • But at the end of the day the patent holders, not public interest, call the shots.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
  • That’s just one of the ideas Ford recently filed a patent for.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Tell us your patent story at editor@popularmechanics.com.
    — Popular Mechanics, 25 Dec. 2018
  • But to them, policosanols are a ruse — the goal is to patent all panela.
    — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Add a drop or two of liquid dish soap to a damp cleaning cloth and wash the patent surface clean.
    — Taryn Mohrman, Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The patent says the soft helmet can be used as a liner or as a helmet itself.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • For all my comprehension the course book may as well be on patent law.
    — Cheryl Jarvis, Longreads, 10 June 2020
  • Disney holds large numbers of patents and seeks more each year.
    — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Margiela’s patent Tabi loafers add just the right touch of interest.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
  • By day the elderly patents at the nursing home had good vital signs.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Bath was the first Black woman doctor to receive a patent.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • To protect an idea, with patents and so on, involved spilling it.
    — The Economist, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The process, protected by a patent, leaves no room for error.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 May 2021
  • But those arguments didn't persuade the patent judges who heard them.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Many companies file patents for products that never see the light of day.
    — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Amazon has a patent for a haptic feedback bracelet that could buzz when a worker reached for the wrong item.
    — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Decades-old tax and patent laws should be updated to make sure that this happens.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Our product and our patent pending system does not need cranes.
    — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Matching pumps with a patent toe complete the ensemble.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Facebook, though, hasn't removed the post, and the text and link to what the users' claims to be the patent are still there.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • In the longer term, lifting some patent requirements is crucial.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Of course, patents don’t always point to concrete future plans.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The patent, which has already expired and on which a third term is asked, is for the ‘feed’ motion.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
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patent

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  • The product was patented by its inventor.
  • In the past, cases about patenting genes have reached the highest courts.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 13 June 2018
  • Borden was the first to patent its process for condensing milk and the first to use glass milk bottles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • They’ve been urged by those in the field to get their washing machine patented.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
  • One of the things that Theranos was good at was patenting a lot of things.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 June 2018
  • The artist and two of his associates patented their own version.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The huge fifth wheel, designed and patented by its creator, was a thing of beauty.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 28 June 2019
  • This has all the makings of the show’s patented 2-on-1.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al.com, 4 June 2019
  • And patent it all Apple did—right down to the slide-to-unlock feature and beveled edges.
    — Nat Watkins, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Migrants are twice as likely as the native-born to start a business and three times as likely to patent an idea.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The company won't even patent the process for fear of exposing its secrets.
    — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 1 July 2020
  • Certainly, Tesla saw the potential for the motor and was quick to patent his.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Cui applied for a grant, won it, and went on to patent his new fabric technology.
    — Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2022
  • And to be sure, Ford regularly tries to patent a lot of really weird ideas.
    — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Then came one of their patented, late and meaningless flurries as the clock ran down and the life drained from another season.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Each of her movements are uniquely designed and patented by Mitchell herself.
    — Essence, 23 Sep. 2023
  • There were a lot of questions involved in deciding whether or not Smuckers could patent its sandwich.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The startup patented a way to make protonated nicotine with any of a number of carboxylic acids.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2019
  • And even if not hybrids, many of today’s plants could not be passed along the generations because they are patented.
    — Lee Reich, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Oh, and the Drip Drop was patented by the time Nassif and Greenwald finished eighth grade.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Know, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Inventors have patented ways of putting cannabis into milk, coffee pods, ice pops and chewing gum.
    — Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Speaking of which, maybe someone will patent some sort of paper-thin device the refs can use to try and stick between the football and the end of a first-down marker.
    — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • One post on Facebook says the U.S. patented a vaccine years ago for the coronavirus.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Nouhou raced along the left flank in one of his patented, break-neck rushes that typically lifts fans out of their seasts.
    — Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Staying cool Almost all the research teams have patented their inventions and are now trying to market them.
    — Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Of graver concern is that this multistep process of making biologics can be patented.
    — Cynthia Koons, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Geekwire just revealed that Amazon has patented its own rolling suitcase that could pick up packages at a warehouse and drop them off at your home.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2018
  • To patent a humble staple like panela struck Colombians as absurd, like patenting café con leche.
    — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Yes, those are all real things Amazon has prototyped or patented.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 11 May 2017
  • It is patented with advanced technologies to enhance hyaluronic acid in five different ways.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

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