The invention has been patented by the university.

那项发明已经由那所大学获取了专利。

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The invention has no practical application.

那项发明没有实际的用途。

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The foregoing description of various embodiments of the invention has been presented for the purposes of illustration and description.

提供前文对本发明的各个实施例的说明是为了例证和说明。

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The Lemelson Foundation has established a center to study invention and innovation at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and conducts national programs and competitions for college-age inventors.

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They wouldn't have said that because it doesn't sound we want to think that we invented this here but it actually was a new invention in a way because the United States has a different philosophy which the United States has been committed since its beginning to federalism.

他们不会说,因为它听起来不像,这里我们希望大家把它想成我们自己的发明,但是事实上，它确实是一个新的发明,因为美国有一个不同的哲学,这个哲学是，美国力图从一开始就,使自己成为联邦制度国家。

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Reaction to the invention has been overwhelming positive on Twitter and YouTube - a site notorious for attracting some of the web's harshest feedback.

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Chase believes the invention has the potential to be used in a vast number of areas in drug administration, including managing schizophrenia, where getting drug doses correct is also difficult.

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What do you think is the greatest invention that has occurred in your lifetime, and the greatest invention in the history of humanity?

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