PATENTEE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The inventor to whom a patent is issued

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("patentee" is a kind of...):

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Derivation:

patent (obtain a patent for)

patent (grant rights to; grant a patent for)

Credits