patent status
Resolve a company or inventor name to an entity id
Answers: which entity is 'Impossible Foods' (or any assignee / inventor name) in the USPTO record, and what are its known name variants. Start here before /v1/entities/{id}/applications, /v1/assignments?assignee=, or /v1/ptab?patent_owner=. Results are ranked (prefix matches first) and include aliases, location, and counts {applications, patents, pending}. A company printed under several names is one row with a fam_... family id and members; a family id is accepted wherever an entity id is. type filters to assignee or inventor. Costs 1 unit per 100 rows.
get/v1/entities/search
Request
- Base URL: https://api.patentdata.ai
- URL: https://api.patentdata.ai/v1/entities/search
- Auth: one of:
- API key in header X-API-KEY
- HTTP bearer
Query parameters
qstring required
Name to resolve; punctuation, case and corporate suffixes are ignored.
typestring nullable
assignee or inventor.
limitinteger
Response
Successful Response
unknown required
Changes
No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.