New PatentsView from USPTO

Thanks to a recently released tool, PatentsView, from the U.S. Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) it is easy to explore patents from last 40 years. "Users [can] explore technological, regional, and individual-level patent trends via search filters with multiple viewing options. The database links inventors, their organizations, locations, and overall patenting activity using enhanced 1976-2014 data from public USPTO bulk data files."; for example find when and what were some of the first patents that Steve Jobs filed. Click here for a more detailed press release about PatentsView.