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== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
Latest revision as of 00:18, 26 October 2025
Usage
This template formats a citation for a patent.
Basic usage
{{cite patent
|country=
|number=
|status=
|title=
|inventor-last=
|inventor-first=
|pubdate=
|gdate=
|url=
|access-date=
}}
Parameters
- country - Country code (e.g., US, EP, WO)
- number - Patent number
- status - "patent" or "application"
- title - Patent title
- inventor-last, inventor-first - Primary inventor's name
- inventor - Full inventor name (alternative)
- inventor2-last, inventor2-first - Second inventor
- pubdate - Publication date
- gdate - Grant date (if applicable)
- date - General date (if pubdate not specified)
- url - URL to patent document
- access-date - Date the URL was accessed
Examples
{{cite patent
|country=US
|number=11397329
|status=patent
|title=Varifocal liquid crystal lens in a head-mounted display
|inventor-last=Smith
|inventor-first=John
|pubdate=2022-07-26
|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US11397329B2/
|access-date=2025-10-26
}}
Result: Smith, John. Varifocal liquid crystal lens in a head-mounted display. US patent 11397329, published 2022-07-26. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11397329B2/. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
{{cite patent
|country=US
|number=20210132349
|status=application
|title=Optical system with curved quarter-wave plate
|pubdate=2021-05-06
|access-date=2025-10-26
}}
Result: Optical system with curved quarter-wave plate. US application 20210132349, published 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2025-10-26.