Sentence examples for were patents for from inspiring English sources

There were patents for emotion-sensing vending machines, and for A.T.M.s that would understand if users were "in a relaxed mood," and receptive to advertising.

Seeing as how there were patents for specific types of gesture devices and not the general category, and further seeing no applicable patents, we can conclude that it might be possible to patent this.

How important are patents for innovative companies?

We purchased the remote controlled car from a local store, and there are patents for the transmitter and patents pending for the car.

There are patents for gesture input systems such as the electric field sensing but none of them use piezoelectrics for sensing motions.

Indeed, genes have been patented for years.

Phage 812K1/420 was patented for treating human MRSA infections46.

True, Celera did use its privileged position to hunt for sections of DNA that could be patented for medical applications.

"I've got another idea now for reclaiming the desert – but nobody's going to know until it's patented for life".

That technology is patented for online data storage.

Ni on ZrO2 and ZrO2 doped with yttrium and a lanthanide and alkaline earth metal has been patented for this process [87].