discoverer vs patentee

discoverer and patentee both are nouns.

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

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

discoverer (noun)	patentee (noun)
someone who is the first to observe something	the inventor to whom a patent is issued
someone who is the first to think of or make something