Describe the invention in plain words — and get results from more than 150 million patent documents, including the patent drawings, right on this page. One click continues the same search on Google Patents, Espacenet, WIPO and USPTO.
Describe what it does, not what it's called. A short description of what the product does gives far better results than a brand-style name. Patents use functional language.
Try several phrasings. A patent for a "bike carrier" may be filed as a bicycle carrier rack or a two-wheeler storage device. Change the words and search again.
Look at the drawings. A drawing says more than a thousand words of legal prose — click a drawing to open it full size, and click the patent title to open the full document on Google Patents.
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