What's the difference between granted and patented?
Granted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Grant
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(3) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(4) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(5) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(6) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
(8) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(9) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(11) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(12) Some clinicians believe that increasing resistance by relatives to granting permission contributes to the falling rates, but this is a minority view.
(13) Australia has also previously granted refugee status to people who fled these countries.
(14) Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cut-off results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organisations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities.
(15) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
(16) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
(17) She is still waiting to hear whether she will be granted asylum.
(18) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
(19) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
(20) The following criteria were used to document program enhancement after the implementation of a microcomputer laboratory: faculty and student attitudes toward computer-assisted instruction (CAI); student anxiety scores toward state board examinations; increased visibility of the college (number of authored CAI modules, CAI grants, computer committee memberships, faculty attendance at computer courses); and relationship involving learning style, attitude, and student learning.
Patented
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Patent
Example Sentences:
(1) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(2) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(3) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(4) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(5) These observations suggest that the function of BMG is to evoke mesenchymal cell differentiation into prechondroblasts during the latent or migratory morphogenetic phase while the effect of the culture medium is to provide the bionutritional requirements for synthesis of hyaline cartilage matrix by chondrocytes during the patent phase of development.
(6) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(7) Rapid diagnosis and treatment of patent ductus arteriosus and appropriate fluid intake are also essential for a favourable outcome in newborn infants with severe RDS treated with surfactant.
(8) Seven infants (group 1) received indomethacin to treat a clinically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and eight infants (group 2) received indomethacin prophylactically at 24 hours of age because of their high risk for PDA.
(9) However, one or more grafts were patent in 52 (90 per cent) of these 58 patients.
(10) A very low parasitaemia, (highest score 2), which was patent for only 10 days, was recorded.
(11) At operation a patent left umbilical artery was partially obstructing the distal left ureter.
(12) On Day 3, dogs with patent grafts underwent wound debridement, irrigation, and closure, and the treatment to which they had been randomized was carried out.
(13) The patient recovered well and postoperative angiography revealed all bypass grafts patent.
(14) (They also delivered an encouraging decision on patent trolls just this week.)
(15) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
(16) A case of double intussusception through a patent vitello-intestinal duct is reported.
(17) It was found that when the mice were infected with up to 5943 parasites within 6 days of treating a previous infection, no patent infection was recorded.
(18) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
(19) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(20) Of the 23 sequential bypasses, only 1 anastomosis out of 46 was not patent for a success rate of 97.3%.