Patents

This page contains information about the Patents data source in the Dimensions BigQuery project.

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Patents Schema

Field

Type

Description

Example

abstract

Literal: String

Abstract or description of the patent.

 
      "Systems and methods for reconstructing magnetic resonance (MR) tissue parameter maps of a subject from magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) data acquired using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes providing MRF data acquired from a subject using an MRI system and performing an iterative, maximum-likelihood reconstruction of the MRF data to create MR tissue parameter maps of the subject."

application_number

Literal: String

Patent application number

 
      "US15409378"

application_reference_id

Literal: String

The id of the referenced application.

 
      "AU-2017263532-A"

assignee_countries

Array of < Literal: String >

List of countries of the assignees of the patent, expressed as GeoNames codes (note: this is the combination of the current_assignee_countries and original_assignee_countries fields).

 
      ["US", "GB", "ES"]

assignee_orgs

Array of < Literal: String >

List of disambiguated GRID organisations who own or have owned the rights of the patent (note: this is a combination GRID identifiers from current_assignee and original_assignee fields).

 
      ["grid.410367.7", "grid.33489.35", "grid.451285.f", "grid.418919.c", "grid.27235.31", "grid.9909.9"]

associated_grant_ids

Array of < Literal: String >

List of Dimensions IDs of the grants associated to the patent.

 
      ["grant.2502176", "grant.3535832"]

categories

Entity: VersionedCategories

Versioned categorisations.

 
      {"bra_v1": null, "for_v1": null, "hra_v1": {"values": ["Biomedical"], "full": [{"id": "3900", "value": "Biomedical"}]}, "hrcs_hc_v1": null, "hrcs_rac_v1": null, "icrp_cso_v1": null, "icrp_ct_v1": {"values": ["Not Site-Specific Cancer"], "full": [{"id": "3816", "value": "Not Site-Specific Cancer"}]}, "rcdc_v1": null, "sdg_v1": null, "uoa_v1": {"codes": ["A01"], "full": [{"id": "30001", "code": "A01", "name": "Clinical Medicine"}]}}

category_bra

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Broad Research Areas

 
      {"values": ["Basic Science"], "full": [{"id": "4000", "value": "Basic Science"}]}

category_for

Entity: ComplexSystematicCategorization

ANZSRC Fields of Research classification

 
      {"first_level": {"codes": ["09", "02", "11", "01"], "full": [{"id": "2209", "code": "09", "name": "Engineering"}, {"id": "2202", "code": "02", "name": "Physical Sciences"}, {"id": "2211", "code": "11", "name": "Medical and Health Sciences"}, {"id": "2201", "code": "01", "name": "Mathematical Sciences"}]}, "second_level": {"codes": ["1103", "0299", "0104", "0903"], "full": [{"id": "3053", "code": "1103", "name": "Clinical Sciences"}, {"id": "2421", "code": "0299", "name": "Other Physical Sciences"}, {"id": "2358", "code": "0104", "name": "Statistics"}, {"id": "2837", "code": "0903", "name": "Biomedical Engineering"}]}}

category_hra

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Health Research Areas

 
      {"values": ["Biomedical"], "full": [{"id": "3900", "value": "Biomedical"}]}

category_hrcs_hc

Entity: SimpleCategorization

HRCS - Health Categories

 
      {"values": ["Cardiovascular", "Metabolic and endocrine"], "full": [{"id": "894", "value": "Cardiovascular"}, {"id": "906", "value": "Metabolic and endocrine"}]}

category_hrcs_rac

Entity: SystematicCategorization

HRCS – Research Activity Codes

 
      {"codes": ["5.2", "1.1"], "full": [{"id": "10502", "code": "5.2", "name": "Cellular and gene therapies"}, {"id": "10101", "code": "1.1", "name": "Normal biological development and functioning"}]}

category_icrp_cso

Entity: SystematicCategorization

ICRP Common Scientific Outline

 
      {"codes": ["1.4", "4.1"], "full": [{"id": "3749", "code": "1.4", "name": "Cancer Progression and Metastasis"}, {"id": "3761", "code": "4.1", "name": "Technology Development and/or Marker Discovery"}]}

category_icrp_ct

Entity: SimpleCategorization

ICRP Cancer Types

 
      {"values": ["Not Site-Specific Cancer"], "full": [{"id": "3816", "value": "Not Site-Specific Cancer"}]}

category_rcdc

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization

 
      {"values": ["Emerging Infectious Diseases", "Gene Therapy", "Genetics", "Biotechnology", "Bioengineering"], "full": [{"id": "520", "value": "Emerging Infectious Diseases"}, {"id": "361", "value": "Gene Therapy"}, {"id": "526", "value": "Genetics"}, {"id": "338", "value": "Biotechnology"}, {"id": "337", "value": "Bioengineering"}]}

cited_by_ids

Array of < Literal: String >

List of Dimensions IDs of the patents that cite this patent.

 
      ["US-10420782-B2", "US-10413560-B2", "US-10413561-B2", "US-10350227-B2", "US-10265332-B2", "US-10335424-B2"]

claims_amount

Literal: Integer

The number of claims associated with a patent.

 
      28

concepts

Array of < Entity: Concept >

Concepts describing the main topics of a patent (note: automatically derived from the patent text using machine learning).

 
      [{"concept": "present invention", "relevance": "0.06666943027795029"}, {"concept": "devices", "relevance": "0.058927813944865043"}, {"concept": "invention", "relevance": "0.02897022623080691"}, {"concept": "light emitting devices", "relevance": "0.0021213808992864569"}, {"concept": "light-emitting devices", "relevance": "0.0020197573739001921"}, {"concept": "organic light-emitting devices", "relevance": "0.00059807019369673793"}, {"concept": "organic light-emitting devices", "relevance": "0.000595406916681274"}]

cpc

Array of < Literal: String >

Cooperative Patent Classification Categorization

 
      ["G01R33/5608", "G01R33/50", "G01R33/50", "G01R33/5608"]

current_assignee

Array of < Entity: Assignee >

List of organisations currenlty owning the patent.

 
      [{"name": "Institut Catala dInvestigacio Quimica ICIQ", "grid_id": "grid.418919.c", "country": "ES", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "ES"}, {"name": "Universitat Rovira i Virgili URV", "grid_id": "grid.410367.7", "country": "ES", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "ES"}, {"name": "University of Leeds", "grid_id": "grid.9909.9", "country": "GB", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "GB"}, {"name": "US Department of Health and Human Services", "grid_id": "grid.27235.31", "country": "US", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "US"}, {"name": "University of Delaware", "grid_id": "grid.33489.35", "country": "US", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "US"}]

current_assignee_countries

Array of < Literal: String >

List of countries of the assignees who currently own the rights of the patent, expressed as GeoNames codes (note: this value is extracted independently from GRID).

 
      ["ES", "US", "GB"]

current_assignee_orgs

Array of < Literal: String >

List of disambiguated GRID organisations who currently own the rights of the patent.

 
      ["grid.418919.c", "grid.27235.31", "grid.33489.35", "grid.410367.7", "grid.9909.9"]

date_imported_gbq

Literal: Timestamp

Timestamp when the patent was last imported into BigQuery. Incremental changes can be determined using this field. Note, however at certain times all records may be reimported.

 
      "2020-08-04 02:01:16 UTC"

document_category

Literal: String

Present for US only. Categories are derived from kind codes and include: Defensive, Design, Plant, Reissue, Statutory, Utility.

 
      "Utility"

expiration_date

Literal: String

Date when the patent expires.

 
      "2037-07-01"

expiration_year

Literal: Integer

Year when the patent expires.

 
      2037

family_count

Literal: Integer

The total count of patents in the same family.

 
      5

family_id

Literal: String

Identifier of the corresponding patent family.

 
      "73048400"

family_members_ids

Array of < Literal: String >

Dimensions IDs of the other patents in the same family (excluding the patent the relationship originates from).

 
      ["KR-102044490-B1", "EP-3253452-A1", "US-10039600-B2", "CN-107205776-A", "KR-20170125324-A", "JP-6735762-B2", "JP-2018507029-A", "BR-112017013894-A2", "EP-3253452-A4", "US-20160220308-A1", "WO-2016126826-A1"]

federal_support

Array of < Literal: String >

 
      ["This invention was made with government support under Grant Number 2014-67009-22305 and 2018-67009-27374 awarded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA. The government has certain rights in the invention."]

figures_amount

Literal: Integer

The number of figures provided for this patent.

 
      20

filing_date

Literal: String

Date when the patent was filed.

 
      "2017-01-18"

filing_status

Literal: String

Filing Status of the patent e.g. ‘Application’ or ‘Grant’.

 
      "Grant"

filing_year

Literal: Integer

The year the patent was filed.

 
      2017

funder_orgs

Array of < Literal: String >

List of GRID organisations funding the patent.

 
      ["grid.280347.a"]

funding_details

Array of < Entity: Funding >

List of GRID organisations funding the patent, together with the respective Dimensions grant ID.

 
      [{"grid_id": "grid.280347.a", "grant_id": "grant.2502176"}, {"grid_id": "grid.280347.a", "grant_id": "grant.3535832"}]

granted_date

Literal: String

The date on which the official body grants the patent.

 
      "2019-03-26"

granted_year

Literal: Integer

The year on which the official body grants the patent.

 
      2019

id

Literal: String

Clustering field

Dimensions patent ID.

 
      "US-10241176-B2"

inventor_names

Array of < Literal: String >

List of names of the people who invented the patent.

 
      ["Bo Zhao", "Kawin Setsompop", "Lawrence Wald"]

inventors

Array of < Entity: InventorDetail >

List of details of the people who invented the patent.

 
      [{"name": "FAKRA DAMIEN", "researcher_id": "ur.015472021737.29", "address": {"country": "FR", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "address": null, "postcode": null}}, {"name": "JEAN-CLAUDE GATINA", "researcher_id": "ur.07360216311.79", "address": {"country": "FR", "city": "SAINT-DENIS", "state": null, "street": null, "address": null, "postcode": "97490"}}, {"name": "DOLLY ARMEL SYLVAIN ANDRIATOAVINA", "researcher_id": null, "address": {"country": "MG", "city": "ANTANANANARIVO", "state": null, "street": null, "address": null, "postcode": "101"}}]

ipcr

Array of < Literal: String >

International Patent Classification Reform Categorization

 
      ["G01R33/50", "G01R33/56"]

jurisdiction

Literal: String

Clustering field

The jurisdiction where the patent was granted, e.g. ‘US’, ‘DE’, ‘EP’…

 
      "US"

kind

Literal: String

Kind of the patent - varies on jurisdiction and type of patent. Eg: A1.

 
      "B2"

legal_events

Array of < Entity: LegalEvent >

List of legal status events, covering a variety of entries, procedural steps, and post-grant events.

 
      [{"code": "AS", "title": "ASSIGNMENT", "date": "2017-01-19", "attributes": [{"label": "Effective Date ", "value": "20170117"}, {"label": "free format text ", "value": "ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:ZHAO, BO;SETSOMPOP, KAWIN;WALD, LAWRENCE;REEL/FRAME:041013/0508"}, {"label": "Owner name ", "value": "THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, MASSACHUSETTS"}]}, {"code": "STCF", "title": "INFORMATION ON STATUS: PATENT GRANT", "date": "2019-03-06", "attributes": [{"label": "free format text ", "value": "PATENTED CASE"}]}, {"code": "CC", "title": "CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION", "date": "2019-05-14", "attributes": []}]

legal_status

Literal: String

Clustering field

The legal status of the patent, e.g. ‘Granted’, ‘Active’, ‘Abandoned’ etc..

 
      "Active"

orange_book

Array of < Entity: OrangeBookRecord >

Data added from the FDA Orange Book Data Files.

 
      {"applicant_full_names": ["ALKERMES INC", "ALKERMES INC"], "ingredients": ["ARIPIPRAZOLE LAUROXIL", "ARIPIPRAZOLE LAUROXIL"], "application_numbers": ["209830", "207533"], "drug_names": ["ARISTADA INITIO KIT", "ARISTADA"]}

original_assignee

Array of < Entity: Assignee >

List of organisations that first owned the patent.

 
      [{"name": "Institut Catala dInvestigacio Quimica ICIQ", "grid_id": "grid.418919.c", "country": "ES", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "ES"}, {"name": "Universitat Rovira i Virgili URV", "grid_id": "grid.410367.7", "country": "ES", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "ES"}, {"name": "University of Leeds", "grid_id": "grid.9909.9", "country": "GB", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "GB"}, {"name": "University of Leeds Innovations Ltd", "grid_id": "grid.9909.9", "country": "GB", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "GB"}, {"name": "University of Delaware", "grid_id": "grid.33489.35", "country": "US", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "US"}, {"name": "US Government", "grid_id": "grid.451285.f", "country": "US", "city": null, "state": null, "street": null, "country_code": "US"}]

original_assignee_countries

Array of < Literal: String >

List of countries of the assignees who have owned the rights of the patent, expressed as GeoNames codes (note: this value is extracted independently from GRID).

 
      ["ES", "US", "GB"]

original_assignee_orgs

Array of < Literal: String >

List of disambiguated GRID organisations who have owned the rights of the patent.

 
      ["grid.451285.f", "grid.9909.9", "grid.410367.7", "grid.418919.c", "grid.33489.35"]

priority_date

Literal: String

The earliest filing date in a family of patent applications.

 
      "2016-01-20"

priority_year

Literal: Integer

The filing year of the earliest application of which priority is claimed.

 
      2016

publication_date

Literal: String

Date of publication of a patent.

 
      "2019-03-26"

publication_ids

Array of < Literal: String >

List of Dimensions IDs of the publications related to this patent.

 
      ["pub.1023396812"]

publication_year

Literal: Integer

Partitioning field

Year of publication of a patent.

 
      2019

reference_ids

Array of < Literal: String >

List of Dimensions IDs of the patents which are cited by this patent. This field may in some cases include identifiers of provisional patent applications that are not yet in the Dimensions database. In such cases, on the Dimensions web application patent detail page, the total number of references will be slightly different as the web application only shows fully resolved identifiers.

 
      ["US-20100010744-A1", "US-20150272467-A1", "US-20170059682-A1", "US-20170205482-A1", "US-20170234951-A1", "US-20170261578-A1", "US-20180225424-A1", "US-8723518-B2", "US-9633455-B1"]

researcher_ids

Array of < Literal: String >

Researcher IDs matched to the patent’s inventors list.

 
      ["ur.01061432030.90", "ur.0614261734.14", "ur.01344460520.83", "ur.012473317546.12", "ur.01232320175.68", "ur.01154477407.60"]

title

Literal: String

The title of the patent.

 
      "Systems and methods for statistical reconstruction of magnetic resonance fingerprinting data"

Auxiliary Entities

Assignee

Field

Type

Description

city

Literal: String

country

Literal: String

Country of the assignee, as provided from the IFI CLAIMS source. Normally a valid ISO country code, but this is not always the case.

country_code

Literal: String

A valid ISO country code for the assignee, as provided by the resolved GRID ID (if available).

grid_id

Literal: String

Disambiguated GRID organisation for the assignee.

name

Literal: String

Name of the assignee.

state

Literal: String

street

Literal: String

ComplexSystematicCategorization

Field

Type

Description

first_level

Entity: SystematicCategoryLevel

second_level

Entity: SystematicCategoryLevel

Concept

Field

Type

Description

concept

Literal: String

relevance

Literal: Float

Funding

Field

Type

Description

grant_id

Literal: String

The Dimensions grant ID, if identified.

grid_id

Literal: String

The GRID ID of the funder, if identified.

InventorAddress

Field

Type

Description

address

Literal: String

city

Literal: String

country

Literal: String

postcode

Literal: String

state

Literal: String

street

Literal: String

InventorDetail

Field

Type

Description

address

Entity: InventorAddress

Address details associated with the inventor.

name

Literal: String

Name of the inventor.

researcher_id

Literal: String

Researcher ID matched to the inventor.

LegalEvent

Field

Type

Description

attributes

Array of < Entity: LegalEventAttribute >

Attributes associated with the legal event.

code

Literal: String

1-4 character code.

date

Literal: String

Date of public notification.

title

Literal: String

Description of the legal status code.

LegalEventAttribute

Field

Type

Description

label

Literal: String

Description of the legal status code.

value

Literal: String

Legal status event description.

OrangeBookRecord

Field

Type

Description

applicant_full_name

Literal: String

application_number

Literal: String

drug_name

Literal: String

ingredients

Array of < Literal: String >

SimpleCategorization

Field

Type

Description

full

Array of < Entity: SimpleCategory >

values

Array of < Literal: String >

SimpleCategory

Field

Type

Description

id

Literal: String

value

Literal: String

SystematicCategorization

Field

Type

Description

codes

Array of < Literal: String >

full

Array of < Entity: SystematicCategory >

SystematicCategory

Field

Type

Description

code

Literal: String

id

Literal: String

name

Literal: String

SystematicCategoryLevel

Field

Type

Description

codes

Array of < Literal: String >

full

Array of < Entity: SystematicCategory >

VersionedCategories

Field

Type

Description

bra_v2020

Entity: SimpleCategorization

for_2020_v2022

Entity: ComplexSystematicCategorization

hra_v1

Entity: SimpleCategorization

hrcs_hc_v2020

Entity: SimpleCategorization

hrcs_rac_v2020

Entity: SystematicCategorization

icrp_cso_v2020

Entity: SystematicCategorization

icrp_ct_v2020

Entity: SimpleCategorization

rcdc_v2023

Entity: SimpleCategorization

deprecated bra_v1

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: bra_v2020

deprecated for_v1

Entity: ComplexSystematicCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: for_2020_v2022

deprecated for_v2020

Entity: ComplexSystematicCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: for_2020_v2022

deprecated hrcs_hc_v1

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: hrcs_hc_v2020

deprecated hrcs_rac_v1

Entity: SystematicCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: hrcs_rac_v2020

deprecated icrp_cso_v1

Entity: SystematicCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: icrp_cso_v2020

deprecated icrp_ct_v1

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: icrp_ct_v2020

deprecated rcdc_v1

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: category_rcdc

deprecated sdg_v1

Entity: SystematicCategorization

Deprecated with no recommended replacement.

deprecated uoa_v1

Entity: SystematicCategorization

Deprecated with no recommended replacement.

Patents Deprecations

This section lists fields that have been deprecated and should no longer be used within queries. In time, deprecated fields will be removed from the data source’s corresponding schema in BigQuery.

Deprecated Fields

Field

Type

Description

category_sdg

Entity: SystematicCategorization

Deprecated with no recommended replacement.

category_uoa

Entity: SystematicCategorization

Deprecated with no recommended replacement.