Sentence examples for tangible machine from inspiring English sources

We have before us a mixed case involving the sale of a tangible machine which incorporates an intangible, patented idea.

To give another example unconnected with a tangible machine, a song writer could charge a royalty every time his song—his idea—was sung for profit during the period of copyright.

Similarly, medical machine vision software may be embodied in a tangible machine involving a camera or various sensors, possibly opening it up to products liability if there is a resultant harm.

The closing words of Marie Winn's 1977 book "The Plug-In Drug," about the negative effects of television on children, still make good sense: "For although we may be powerless in the face of the abstract machine that modern society has become, we can still assert our wills in the face of that real and tangible machine in our homes, the television set.

The second part discusses the design and development of a tangible machine-readable model to explain column-modeling methods interactively in educational contexts such as art exhibitions.

The patent laws prohibit post-expiration restrictions on the use of patented ideas; they have no bearing on use restrictions upon nonpatented, tangible machines.

From the outdoor GIF festival in San Francisco and the GIFpop tool that makes custom cards out of animated GIFs using lenticular printing, to a throwback, analog (meaning tangible!) GIF machine, the meme-ready format made waves across the internet over the last twelve months.

In a world in which investment in intangibles now exceeds tangibles (buildings, machines and raw materials) – UK annual intangible investment has grown from £50bn to £140bn since 1990, while fluctuating around £80bn for tangibles – that is no longer good enough.

It also integrates the skills we acquired from the I School, including usability assessment, tangible user interface, machine learning, as well as web and mobile development.

Systems like Algorithmic Angels could make "the ghost in the machine" more tangible, distinguishable and comprehensible by illustrating the effects of intelligent systems in our daily lives and enabling people to decide their personal level of interaction.

The Tweed building -- officially the Municipal Courthouse -- is the most tangible legacy of the corrupt machine politics of William Marcy Tweed.