U.S. specific, but this is what the patent system was originally designed to solve, and is a power given to the U.S. government. “To promote the progress of sc

U.S. specific, but this is what the patent system was originally designed to solve, and is a power given to the U.S. government. “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.“