To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.

(baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.

An official right to make or sell a new invention.

(law) Able to be protected by a patent; for which a patent can be granted.

plural of patentability

The state or condition of being patentable.

(patent law) To a patentable degree

One who obtains a patent on something; a patentee.

plural of patenter

simple past tense and past participle of patent