# USPTO PatentsView integration

> Structured search across every US patent, pre-grant publication, inventor, assignee, citation, and classification from the USPTO PatentSearch API.

- Authentication: apiKey

## Tools (20)

- **Get Granted Patent Brief Summary**: Retrieve the "Brief Summary" section text from granted patent specifications.
- **Get Granted Patent Claims**: Retrieve the full claim text for granted patents, claim by claim.
- **Get Granted Patent Detailed Description**: Retrieve the full "Detailed Description" section text from a granted patent specification.
- **Get Granted Patent Drawing Description**: Retrieve the "Brief Description of the Drawings" section text from a granted patent.
- **Get Pre-Grant Publication Claims**: Retrieve the claim text for pre-grant patent publications, one record per claim.
- **Get Pre-Grant Publication Description**: Retrieve the brief summary, detailed description, and drawing description text for pre-grant publications.
- **List CPC Classifications**: Look up Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) class, subclass, and group hierarchies and titles.
- **List IPC Classifications**: Look up International Patent Classification (IPC) codes used on US patents.
- **List USPC Classifications**: Look up the legacy US Patent Classification (USPC) mainclass and subclass entries.
- **List WIPO Classifications**: Look up WIPO technology field codes used to aggregate patent activity into 35 technology areas.
- **Search Assignees**: Query disambiguated patent assignees (the organizations or individuals patents are assigned to).
- **Search Foreign Citations**: List citations from US patents to foreign (non-US) patent documents.
- **Search Granted Patents**: Query the corpus of granted US patents with arbitrary field, sort, and pagination criteria.
- **Search Inventors**: Query disambiguated inventors and the patents they appear on.
- **Search Locations**: Query disambiguated geographic locations associated with inventors and assignees.
- **Search Other References (Non-Patent Literature)**: List non-patent literature (NPL) references cited by granted US patents — journal articles, books, web pages, standards.
- **Search Patent Attorneys**: Query patent attorneys and agents of record for granted patents.
- **Search Pre-Grant Publications**: Query US patent application publications (pre-grant publications, "PG-Pubs") with full query language support.
- **Search US Application Citations**: List citations from granted US patents to US patent applications (pre-grant publications).
- **Search US Patent Citations**: List US-patent-to-US-patent citations (forward and backward), one record per citation.

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Connect USPTO PatentsView in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/apps/patentsview