US Patent Data via PatentsView API

Regularly updated data from the US Department of Commerce for exploring US intellectual property and innovation systems. The PatentsView PatentSearch API provides access to inventor-disambiguated patent records, supporting research and trend visualization.

Use Cases

• Analyze inventor disambiguation patterns across the US innovation landscape using API-provided entity data.
• Visualize patent application trends over time using temporal fields available through the API.
• Explore relationships between people and companies within the US intellectual property system via linked entity records.

Strengths

• Data is regularly updated with the latest API version being 2.3.0.
• Incorporates inventor disambiguation and data quality control tools.
• Provided by the authoritative US Department of Commerce.

Limitations

• Dataset scale, row count, and specific column schema are unknown from the input.
• Data access and analysis require API integration skills, not a static file.

Provenance

Source

Department of Commerce

Collection Method

API database integrating tools for inventor disambiguation and quality control.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated on 2025-09 30.

Geography

United States