(v): get by special effort
(v): grant rights to; grant a patent for
(v): record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
(v): make open to sight or notice
(v): cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
(n): a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
(n): writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
(n): an official document granting a right or privilege
(n): (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
(adj): (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
(adj): vs. obstructed) -- (free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance
(adj): clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
(adj): vs. unobvious) -- (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
Patent nonsense; patent office.