(a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
(a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
(a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
(a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
(a.) A writing securing to an invention.
(a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
(a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
(v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
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%.
Reissue
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To issue a second time.
(n.) A second or repeated issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(2) Beevor is also a fan, describing Zweig as "one of the greatest and most famous writers right across Europe in the 1930s", and saying that "now he's being reissued it certainly shows he hasn't dated", and that he is "still as fresh today".
(3) A spokeswoman for NS&I said it had an annual net financing target of £2bn, a figure which had increased in this year's budget allowing for the reissue of the certificates.
(4) The reissues of Eden , Love Not Money , Baby, The Stars Shine Bright and Idlewild are out now on Edsel Records
(5) The prize will lift Pamuk's already strong international reputation, and will no doubt lead to the reissuing of those titles of his that are currently out of print.
(6) Those who do not sign up could have their contract terminated and be automatically reissued with the new terms, according to consultation documents seen by the Guardian.
(7) "Warners own the rights to those albums, and our big fear was that one day we'd wake up and they'd have reissued them, without telling us.
(8) If no adverse effect is noted, the policy of not reissuing such units may need revision so that more units could be salvaged.
(9) He spent a period in the 1950s as jazz critic of the New Statesman, and published a Penguin Special, The Jazz Scene, on the subject in 1959 under the pen-name Francis Newton (many years later it was reissued with Hobsbawm identified as the author).
(10) But when the film was reissued in cinemas last autumn , I was curious to see it on the big screen.
(11) Then we got a phone call from someone who specialises in reissues, saying he wanted to put them out.
(12) The mad rush to reissue everything Elvis had ever recorded led to a worldwide shortage of the shellac needed for vinyl records, and Lust for Life was doomed by it.
(13) Things can sometimes go wrong – a 1961 Marcels record that appears in episode two sent US vinyl aficionados into a flurry when they spotted that it was on modern reissue label Eric.
(14) It was preceded by the novelty single The Laughing Gnome , a flop at the time but a top 10 hit when reissued in 1973.
(15) The role of the director of children's services itself has, in many ways, stayed, reassuringly, as it was envisaged in the Children Act 2004 that created the role, and this has been confirmed in the reissuing of the statutory guidance.
(16) A volume of memoirs, A Mug's Game (1972), was revised and reissued as String of Beginnings (1991).
(17) In Cold Blood is reissued this month by the Folio Society .
(18) Margareta van den Bosch, who dreamt up the H&M collaborations concept during a long tenure as head of design for H&M and now works as creative adviser to the brand, said the Wang collection broke new ground because “most pieces were developed from scratch, instead of reissuing archive pieces … Alex is one of the most important voices in fashion today … his designs are urban, wearable and covetable, offering a new take on an urban uniform … [he] has an inherent understanding of what people want to wear, and everything he does is with an energy and passion that’s infectious”.
(19) Labor has this afternoon reissued the key points of the treasury modelling for 2050 with a carbon price in place.
(20) LET IT BE.” Announced last week , the Definitely Maybe reissue is due to be released on 19 May.