” The headline is inaccurate. As far as I can tell, no patents have been granted yet” Thats not how you need to interpret ”patents” grammatically. You could re

” The headline is inaccurate. As far as I can tell, no patents have been granted yet” Thats not how you need to interpret ”patents” grammatically. You could read that as ”is in the process of patenting” Is there a good verb for ”files patent applications for”? You want to consider readability of the headline.