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<font face="Times New Roman">Gerry - FYI, Fig. 3 of the eGrant
version shows element 14 having a layered structure. </font>The
other two versions are degraded to the extent that layering is not
perceptible. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/1/2024 6:32 PM, Gerry J. Elman via
Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">For
drawings, use of the PDF format by the USPTO doesn’t
assure that they’ll be the same, as between the eGrant
document and the “printed” version of the patent
downloadable from Patent Center. I’ve found that the
eGrant document for a patent issued January 30<sup>th</sup>
seems to present the Figures with relatively smooth
grayscale areas, whereas the PDF version of the same
“printed” patent that I downloaded from Patent Center
(here, “PC Print”) shows the same Figures with significant
pixelation. Attached copies of the eGrant document for US
patent 11885786 and the PC Print version of it display a
difference that surprised me. Both the eGrant document and
the PC Print were generated from the SCORE version of the
Figures, with document code </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1B1B1B">DRW.NONBW.
</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:#1B1B1B">The
eGrant file doesn’t have much in the way of
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">artefacts
of pixelation, whereas the PC Print version does, despite
being generated from the same drawings file in the IFW. I
am glad that I’d taken the precaution to upload a file that
I’d characterized as “not” b/w line drawings, so that they
were saved in SCORE, and now I find it incorporated into the
official eGrant document. Nevertheless, curiously the PC
Print file retrieved from Patent Center shows noticeable
pixelation, different from the official eGrant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">I
also downloaded a copy of the patent from the site Free
Patents Online. The images in that version seem to be a bit
more pixelated than those from the USPTO Patent Center.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">Notice
the significant differences in file size. The eGrant is 5
MB. The PC Print Patent Center is only 2 MB. (Of course,
it omits the colored cover pages included in what the USPTO
now dubs the “ceremonial copy” of the patent, and apparently
it uses the version of the Figures from SCORE in the IFW
that have been smooshed by the USPTO’s procrustean bed
algorithm to render as b.w line drawings.) And the download
from Free Patents Online has been compressed down to only
462 KB.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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