PATENTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patentee mean? 

• PATENTEE (noun)
  The noun PATENTEE has 1 sense:

1. the inventor to whom a patent is issued

  Familiarity information: PATENTEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATENTEE (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)

 Context examples 

He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)