Looking for details of a particular patent? Try Google Patents

I donno whether u know it or not but it has been online 2.5 years. If you are looking for details of any patent which was submitted to United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Google Patents is a perfect to dig on. You can find the scanned copies of originally submitted copies on this website.
Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which are taken from the original USPTO database (which is in the public domain). All 7 million patents have been put in the database. Optical character recognition (OCR) has been performed on the pages to make them searchable. This searchability includes all US patents.
History and background:
The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses "the same technology as that underlying Google Books" allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas. The images are saveable as PNG files but can be converted with a graphics program to TIFF files which can be OCRed.
Review and criticisms:
The indexing is not perfect. Reportedly, as of 14 December, not all IBM patents were locatable, as searching for IBM patents retrieved only 1,197 results on Google Patents, but that IBM received nearly 3,000 patents in 2005 alone.Unlike Google Patents, Espacenet includes US patent applications as well as granted patents. In terms of response time however, the performance of Google Patents is considered to be very good.

Read story about launch on Forbes here

Wanna read critical overview of this patent search tool, click here

Finally I was able to post it for a long time. It was in my drafts from march. ooof!!!

Thanks,

Richie