id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt istl-2482 A Short Course on Patent Reference for Science and Technology Librarians .html text/html 8454 411 54 The amount of information on this page varies among countries; the U.S. has one of the most extensive front page formats and includes: Patent number and date of issuance Inventor's name Inventor's address at the time of issuance Assignee's name and address (if the inventor assigned the patent and informed the Patent Office of such prior to issuance) The Patent Applications database became available on March 15, 2001 but contains patent applications from November 29, 2000 to the present. cache/istl-2482.html txt/istl-2482.txt