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GreatPatent.com is a curated editorial site about the US patent record — the unusual, the notable, the never-built, and the inventions that quietly altered the course of an industry. Each story is hand-picked and written for a general audience, with full citations back to the underlying patent documents.

Methodology

Patents on this site are sourced from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) public record. Patent metadata — titles, dates, inventors, assignees, drawings — is fetched at request time from patents.us, our sister database site. Editorial content is written by humans and reviewed before publishing.

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