What's new?
December 17, 2024
Data coverage expansion
- Patents: Search coverage expanded to patents from 68 countries.
- NPL: Search coverage expanded to 100M+ research papers.
November 07, 2024
UI Improvements
- Simplify UI (layout and design)
- Enable full text view of US patents
- Speed up loading of drawing thumbnails
April 24, 2024
New Feature
- Option to export search results
April 08, 2024
Improved search results & UI improvements
- New version of search engine (ver. 4.0) released
- Improved full-text viewer
- Option to see upto 100 results on a page
March 19, 2024
New feature
- See full text (specification and claims) of patents
- Misc. UI improvements
March 06, 2024
UI enhancement
- Search form simplification: reduce no. of inputs
- Patent and NPL search happen simultaneously - no need to apply filter
- Support for larger thumbnails
December 09, 2023
Search enhancement
- Improved searching with date restriction, faster & better results
- UI enhancements (better space utilization)
May 31, 2023
New feature
- Beta release of 'relevant section highlighting' in abstract
April 26, 2023
UI Enhancements
- Results show all thumbnails in default view
- Full size drawings can be viewed by clicking on a thumbnail
- Misc. enhancements to the UI
February 25, 2023
UI Enhancements
- Insights are shown at the bottom of the results page instead of in a separate pane
- CPC definitions are now shown in insights
- Popover messages on filters
- Bug fixes (e.g., show CPC code even if definition missing) in CPC lookup tool
December 22, 2022
Update to API
New routes added to API, which provide functionality of:
- Find relevant CPC classes related to the technical matter in a text excerpt
- Find USPTO Group Art Units related to the technical matter in a text excerpt
- Extract technical concepts mentioned in a given text excerpt
- Return CPC class definitions in JSON format
December 12, 2022
Improved search results
- Search: A new AI model (v3.0) released into production.
August 08, 2022
Improved search results
- Search: New version of AI model trained on a bigger and better dataset rolled into production.
July 27, 2022
Functional enhancements
- Search: All drawings of a result can now be viewed by clicking on the thumbnail.
- Search: When a patent number is entered in the search, results will automatically be restricted by its filing date.
- CPCs: CPC definitions can be toggled between expanded and shortened forms.
June 30, 2022
Functional Enhancements
- Search: Saved results can now be removed individually.
- Search: Patents and NPL results will be distinguished by Patent/NPL tags.
- Search: Insights section shows a filing trend since year 2000.
- CPCs: CPC codes can now be entered in the input box to see their definitions.