US patent hierarchy visualization
Wed Jul 23, 2008 – 07:59
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US patent hierarchy visualization / information
aesthetics
a detailed infographic map that displays the United States Patent &
Trademark Office patent classification, which organizes 3 million
patents into about 160,000 distinct patent classes. exemplarily shown
are 2 patents, together with, respectively, their prior art &
impact.
the taxonomy visualization shows the organization schema as a hierarchy in which sublevels are indented according to their depth in the hierarchy. item properties are represented by bar graphs on the left-hand side of the schema. item & class interrelations are denoted by line overlays.
[link: gigapan.org & scimaps.org]