Patent Document

The front page of a patent document contains administrative and business information including the patent number, inventors, the title of the invention, the assignee/owner, the application number and date of application, patent classification codes, field of search, the date of issue, references, the patent examiner, and patent attorneys. The front page also provides a simple non-technical description of the invention and a representative drawing selected from the drawing sheet. See Michael White, "Anatomy of a U.S. Patent Document", Queen’s University Engineering & Science Library Website, May 2008, Last accessed on 12/4/2016, (link).