Template:Patent

This template provides a custom, simplified citation scheme for patents. Requires {{Reflist}} for citations to work.

Supported patents

Code	Issuing body
us	United States Patent and Trademark Office
ep	European Patent Office
gb	United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office

Documentation

To invoke this template, enter <ref>{{patent |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |etal= |assignee= |title= |code= |number= |application= |date= }}</ref> after your claim. Consult our style guide for more information on how to use it.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description	Type	Status
last	The inventor's last name.	string	required
first	The inventor's first name. If there is one, middle name also goes here.	string	required
last2	The second inventor's last name. Use only if the authors are two in total.	string	optional
first2	The second inventor's first name. If there is one, middle name also goes here. Use only if the authors are two in total.	string	optional
etal	States that there are more than two inventors. Do not use last2 and first2 together with it. Only the first inventor needs to be cited, e.g. "Doe John et al." (not "Doe John, Doe Jane & et al."). Enter "true" to enable.	boolean	optional
assignee	The assignee's name, i.e. the organization or individual(s) holding legal title to the patent. If it's an individual, write the last name before the first name. If there is more than an individual, only mention the first one and add "et al."	string	required
title	The patent's title.	string	required
code	The two-letter code of the issuing country or organization. Use the currently supported patent codes. Links to LibreJS-compliant patent websites are generated based on the input.	boolean	required
number	The patent's number identifier without the two-letter code prefix, without the kind code. This should always refer to the latest publication regarding the patent, whether it is published or not. For unpublished patents, also cite application number identifiers with application.	string	required
application	The patent application's number identifier without the two-letter code prefix. Use only if the patent is unpublished for any reason.	string	optional
date	The patent's date of publication (not date of application). If you are citing an application with application, then this should be the patent's date of application (not date of publication of documents such as A1). Use the YYYY-MM-DD format, e.g. "2022-03-15". Do not use other date formats.	string	required

Examples

<ref>{{patent |last=Gladding |first=Derek E. |etal=true |assignee=Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC |title= Features of range asymmetric number system encoding and decoding |code=us |number=11,234,023 |date=2022-01-25}}</ref>
<ref>{{patent |last=Kuriacose |first=Joseph |etal=true |assignee=OpenTV Inc. |title=A distributed computer system |code=ep |number=1307024 |date=2003-05-02}}</ref>
<ref>{{patent |last=Converse |first=Alexander Jay |assignee=Google LLC |title=Mixed boolean-token ans coefficient coding |code=us |number=20170164007 |application=15/370840 |date=2016-12-06}}</ref>