Great work with this, I can see it providing me hours of entertainment. Obligatory what's the stack?
I've kept it really simple - the patentsview.org API spits out JSON, which I'm feeding into the (awesome!) DataTables jQuery-plugin. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. I'm planning a HN-style voting system so that interesting patents trickle to the top.
So yes, jQuery plugin is pretty damn simple for 2017.