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This template identifies a patent or patent application and links to the patents entry in the espacenet database, and also provides some additional information about the cited patent. Suggested uses are within a pair of <ref></ref> tags or as part of a (patent) bibliography at the end of the article. This template should not be used in the body of an article; for more details, see the external links guideline.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Template:Cite patent” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.