How to view Images and Text of Patents
from the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)

(1). Go to the USPTO website - Patent Public Search Basic at
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/pages/ppubsbasic.html

USPTO basic patent search

(2). Type in the patent number. If it has less than 7 numbers, add zeros at the beginning to total 7 numbers (see example above).

(3). Once you click on Search, scroll to the bottom of the page where you'll find the results.

(4). Click on the PDF - OCR Scanned Document to view the image and text.

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