artificer vs patentee

artificer and patentee both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
artificer	Yes	No	No	No
patentee	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, patentee is a hyponym of artificer; that is, patentee is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than artificer:

artificer (noun)	patentee (noun)
a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft	the inventor to whom a patent is issued
someone who is the first to think of or make something
an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.