A new search tool to explore 40 years of US patent data for technological, regional or individual trends.
See announcement from USPTO about PatentsView.
Link to PatentsView: http://www.patentsview.org/web/
PatentsView has filters with multiple viewing options and links inventors, organizations, locations, and patenting activity using enhanced data from 1976 to 2014. Explore technologies, assignees, citation patterns, and co-inventor networks.