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Patents Online: Basics for Researchers: Finding the Full-Text of U.S. Patents

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Finding the Full-Text of U.S. Patents with a Number

To locate the full-text of a registered or pending U.S. patent, use Pat2PDF. 
  Type in the patent or application number. The site will retrieve the patent in .PDF.

Use USPTO number search, to link to references, etc. within the body of the patent.