Update
When this dataset was first published, it aimed to provide more recent bibliographic data on USPTO patent grants covering a larger number of fields than alternative datasets. Now that Patentsview provides up-to-date data including all available bibliographic fields, this dataset is no longer necessary. The information and dataset below is just for archive purposes.
Data description
Patents are an oft-used dataset for various types of research. Several groups have made patent data freely available for research purposes, but current datasets have some flaws, included being outdated or missing important fields. Therefore I used freely and publicly available data to provide the USPTO patent grants from 1976 until mid-2016 in a convenient format directly available for research.
Please visit PatGrantData for this dataset.