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patentee

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pat·ent·ee  (ptn-t)
n.
The party that possesses or has been granted a patent.
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Noun1.patentee - the inventor to whom a patent is issued
artificer, discoverer, inventor - someone who is the first to think of or make something
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Those persons, indeed, who have passed any time behind the scenes of this great theatre, and are thoroughly acquainted not only with the several disguises which are there put on, but also with the fantastic and capricious behaviour of the Passions, who are the managers and directors of this theatre (for as to Reason, the patentee, he is known to be a very idle fellow and seldom to exert himself), may most probably have learned to understand the famous
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
He called it the Sleet's crow's-nest, in honor of himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
She permits us, indeed, to mar, but seldom to mend, and, like a jealous patentee, on no account to make.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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