- patent
- 01. Book matches were [patented] by an American inventor in 1892.02. Pharmaceutical companies are calling on the government to protect their [patent] on prescription drugs for a minimum of 10 years.03. The man who invented the artificial heart donated the [patent] for it to the University of Utah.04. In 1988, geneticists at Harvard University were granted the first U.S. [patent] for an animal - a genetically-engineered mouse that is highly susceptible to breast cancer.05. The government of Canada does not currently allow for the [patenting] of any living animal.06. His invention owes a great deal to a [patent] registered in Poland 20 years previously.07. Alexander Graham Bell [patented] the telephone in 1876.08. The world's first [patent] was granted in Italy in 1421 to a man who made a barge crane to transport marble.09. In 1784, James Watt [patented] the modern steam engine for practical commercial use.10. Marie and Pierre Curie refused to [patent] their process of making radium, declaring it belonged to the world.11. In 1899, the director of the U.S. [Patent] Office declared that everything that could be invented had already been invented.12. Thomas Edison holds the U.S. record for the greatest number of [patented] inventions, at 1,093.13. On being asked who owned the [patent] on his antipolio vaccine, Jonas Salk responded, "The people. Could you [patent] the sun?"14. The first automobile was created in January 1886, when Carl Benz [patented] a tricycle with a one-cylinder engine.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.