Quite. And if you'll excuse the pedantry, the KJV is patented, under a “letters patent” issued by The King. I point this out because these days the term patent

Quite. And if you'll excuse the pedantry, the KJV is patented, under a “letters patent” issued by The King. I point this out because these days the term patent almost always implies an invention. It's an interesting counterexample.