That's too abstract." In the Bilski case, the court said patent examiners could consider what is known as the machine-or-transformation test.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

But the Osborne One was about the size of a sewing machine and weighed twenty-four pounds.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

"The brain-machine interface is a system that allows disabled people, people suffering from physical disabilities to communicate with external world and also to control devices."

VOA: special.2011.04.04

And unlike a machine, the skin-to-skin contact provides two kinds of warmth physical and emotional.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

This can be done with a shovel, hoe or sod-cutter machine.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

They include computer engineers, statisticians and machine-learning experts.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The pirates have machine guns and rocket-powered bombs.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

While they were in the brain-scanning machine, they were asked to do tasks that required concentration and attention.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

"I think the Volt is the most technically-advanced machine,car, on the road right now, I just hope the public jumps on the bandwagon."

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

In the early years of communist rule in China, a sewing machine was one of the so-called big items that indicated a high living standard.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Also on board is a new exercise machine, which is part of ongoing studies into the effects of long-term space flight on muscle and bone loss in astronauts.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"The three laureates have accomplished what many scientists thought impossible, namely to determine the three- dimensional structure of the molecular machine that makes all the proteins in a cell, the so-called ribosome,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

They look like an extra-large version of the World War Two jeep, but enclosed, with small blast-proof windows, a protected machine gun position on top and a variety of high-tech gear inside and out.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02