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      patents
      noun
      an official document granting a right or privilege
      a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
      verb
      make open to sight or notice
      grant rights to
      obtain a patent for
      adjective
      clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
      (of a bodily tube or passageway) open
      Roots
      pateopat- · Latin · lie open
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