Utility Patent Drawing Sheets
Produced 1 August 2026
Where this came from
A four-element figure and its reference numerals, written here as vector geometry of the kind a buyer supplies
THE INPUT WAS WRITTEN HERE. I authored the geometry and the numeral list, so this is weaker evidence than the two SEC-sourced specimens and is labelled as such. What is not self-authored is the standard: 37 CFR 1.84 is public law, the acceptance criteria below are quoted from it by subsection, and every measurement is one you can reproduce against the PDF with a ruler and the regulation text. The sheet is checked against an external rule I do not control, which is the part that matters.
The first version of this checker failed a sheet that was exactly compliant.
A sheet was drawn to the letter ceiling in 37 CFR 1.84(g) and the checker rejected it. The checker was wrong, not the sheet. 1.84(g) publishes two sight ceilings, 17.0 by 26.2 cm for A4 and 17.6 by 24.4 cm for letter, and the first version applied the A4 number to a letter sheet. The sheet measured 17.6 by 24.4, which is the letter ceiling exactly, and was refused for exceeding a ceiling that did not apply to it. This is the failure mode worth naming, because it is invisible from the buyer side: a check with the wrong constant does not produce a wrong drawing, it silently refuses correct work and there is nothing in the output to tell you why. Both ceilings are now carried and the sheet passes all seven criteria.