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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

This Guide is in support of the research and teaching needs of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at U.Va.

Patent Searching

US Patent & Trademark Office

The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency which serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States

Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications

Lens serves global patent and scholarly knowledge as a public good to inform science and technology enabled problem solving. No account required.

Basic Introduction to Patent Searching
A first stop for learning how to find existing patents