Patent: how to cite in MLA (8th ed.)?

Crie uma referência precisa em MLA 8 e 9

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Basic rules

To reference a patent in works cited, the following data are required: information on the assignees or inventors of the patent, patent title, registration number, institution that delivered the patent, and its publication date.

For a patent accessible online, its URL address and date of access should also be mentioned.

How to cite in a bibliography

Reference template:

Assignees / inventors. Patent Title. Patent No., Institution, date of publication, URL. Accessed date of access.

See also the rules of citing authors with MLA.

Examples of references in works cited:

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB. Method and System for Flow Table Lookup Parallelization in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) System. EP2959647B1, European Patent Office, 26 July 2017, patents.google.com/patent/EP2959647B1. Accessed 12 Aug. 2020.

New Zealand Forest Research Institute. Method for Producing Wood Fibre Pellets. US10150227B2, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 23 Mar. 2017, patents.google.com/patent/US10150227B2. Accessed 12 Aug. 2020.

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