Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
(of devices and processes) protected by patent;
- Example: "they are patented inventions"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Patent \Pat"ent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patented; p. pr. & vb.
n. Patenting.]
To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to
secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to
patent public lands.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
patented
adj 1: (of devices and processes) protected by patent; "they are
patented inventions"