Rutsen was given a patent for the combined area on August 26, 1686.
The Patent Office won't give us a patent on software.
The government does not usually just give the inventor a patent.
If the government finds that the inventor's idea is new, it will give the inventor a patent.
Anything described reasonably accurately in literature can't be given a basic patent.
"You say you've been given a patent on this?"
Imagine if someone had been given a patent for "use of a telephone through wireless signals."
Licensure of a playhouse, however, only gave a general patent.
A physical person or a corporation can be given a patent or registration.
She was given a patent for a corn mill in 1715.