In-text citation
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(Inventor's Last name, Year)
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Parenthetical citations
... (De'Longhi, Evangelisti and Franzon, 2021).
... (Musk et al., 2020).
Narrative citations (when the author is mentioned in the text)
De'Longhi, Evangelisti and Franzons (2021) patented solution...
Musk et al. (2020) has...
Reference list entry
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Inventor's Last name, First name and Last name, First name (Year of approval). Title of patent. Patent number.
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De'Longhi, Giuseppe, Evangelisti, Paolo and Franzon, Floriano (2021). Coffee Machine With Improved Movement System Of The Brewing Cylinder. US2021369040A1.
Musk, Elon, Park, Kate, Uzunovic, Nenad, Coleman Moore, Christopher, Havlak, Francis, Bowers, Stuart, Karpathy, Andrej, Ramanandan, Arvind, Kapur Sud, Ashima, Chen, Paul, Jain, Paril, Hertzberg, Alexander, Kong, Jason, Wang, Li, Arslan, Oktay, Gustafsson, Nicklas, Shieh, Charles and Seelig, David (2020). Autonomous and user controlled vehicle summon to a target. US2020/0257317A1.