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.