FSORT for grouping patent records into families

FSORT for grouping patent records into families

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Use FSORT (Family SORT) to group patent records from L-number answer sets into patent families. Two patent records are considered to be members of the same family if any of their patent numbers, application numbers, or priority numbers are the same.

FSORT works in any of the databases included in the PATENTS or HPATENTS cluster.

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