[Patentpractice] Images from eGrant and downloaded patent have different pixelations

[Rick Neifeld]

Gerry - FYI, Fig. 3 of the eGrant version shows element 14 having a 
layered structure. The other two versions are degraded to the extent 
that layering is not perceptible.

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On 2/1/2024 6:32 PM, Gerry J. Elman via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> 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^th 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 
> DRW.NONBW. The eGrant file doesn’t have much in the way of
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Something to keep in mind.
>
> -Gerry
>
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