patent an invention

Translations
патентовать изобретение
The company decided to patent an invention to protect its intellectual property.
Компания решила запатентовать изобретение, чтобы защитить свою интеллектуальную собственность.
Definitions
To patent an invention means to obtain a legal right granted by a government authority that gives the inventor exclusive rights to make, use, sell, and distribute the invention for a specified period of time, typically 20 years, in exchange for publicly disclosing the details of the invention.
Words
patent

verb
запатентовать
an

article or possessive pronoun
неопределённый артикль
invention

noun
изобретение