Patents

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

See also

Dimensions DSL API Documentation for this type is also available from here.

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.

 
      {"hra_v1": {"values": ["Clinical"], "full": [{"id": "3901", "value": "Clinical"}]}, "rcdc_v1": {"values": ["Complementary and Integrative Health"], "full": [{"id": "430", "value": "Complementary and Integrative Health"}]}, "bra_v2020": {"values": ["Basic Science"], "full": [{"id": "4000", "value": "Basic Science"}]}, "hrcs_hc_v2020": {"values": ["Generic health relevance"], "full": [{"id": "890", "value": "Generic health relevance"}]}, "hrcs_rac_v2020": {"codes": ["2.1"], "full": [{"id": "10201", "code": "2.1", "name": "Biological and endogenous factors"}]}, "icrp_cso_v2020": {"codes": ["3.1"], "full": [{"id": "3755", "code": "3.1", "name": "Interventions to Prevent Cancer: Personal Behaviors That Affect Cancer Risk"}]}, "icrp_ct_v2020": {"values": ["Lung Cancer"], "full": [{"id": "3809", "value": "Lung Cancer"}]}, "for_2020_v2022": {"first_level": {"codes": ["30"], "full": [{"id": "80001", "code": "30", "name": "Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences"}]}, "second_level": {"codes": ["3009"], "full": [{"id": "80032", "code": "3009", "name": "Veterinary Sciences"}]}}, "rcdc_v2023": {"values": ["Emerging Infectious Diseases", "Rare Diseases", "Tuberculosis", "Biodefense", "Infectious Diseases"], "full": [{"id": "520", "value": "Emerging Infectious Diseases"}, {"id": "559", "value": "Rare Diseases"}, {"id": "422", "value": "Tuberculosis"}, {"id": "499", "value": "Biodefense"}, {"id": "533", "value": "Infectious Diseases"}]}}

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": 0.05892781394486504}, {"concept": "invention", "relevance": 0.02897022623080691}, {"concept": "light emitting devices", "relevance": 0.002121380899286457}, {"concept": "light-emitting devices", "relevance": 0.002019757373900192}, {"concept": "organic light-emitting devices", "relevance": 0.0005980701936967379}, {"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 patents 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 >

Part(s) of the patent description text covering federal funding.

 
      ["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"

npc_references

Array of < Entity: NonPatentCitationReference >

Non-patent citations references determined from the patent document.

 
      [{"publication_id": "pub.1061437956", "source": "front_page"}, {"publication_id": "pub.1061438670", "source": "front_page"}, {"publication_id": "pub.1061438319", "source": "front_page"}, {"publication_id": "pub.1061437300", "source": "front_page"}, {"publication_id": "pub.1061438338", "source": "front_page"}]

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 referenced in the front-page of the patent. Note: all resolved publications present within patent can be found within the non-patent citations array (npc_references).

 
      ["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

City/address for assignee as provided from the IFI CLAIMS source.

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

State of the assignee as provided from the IFI CLAIMS source.

street

Literal: String

Street details of the assignee as provided from the IFI CLAIMS source.

ComplexSystematicCategorization

Field

Type

Description

first_level

Entity: SystematicCategoryLevel

First level of categorisation within the classification scheme.

second_level

Entity: SystematicCategoryLevel

Second level of categorisation within the classification scheme.

Concept

Field

Type

Description

concept

Literal: String

Normalized noun phrase describing a main topic within the document. Automatically derived using machine learning techniques.

relevance

Literal: Float

Relevance ranking of the normalized noun phrase within the document’s field of study.

Funding

Field

Type

Description

grant_id

Literal: String

Dimensions grant identifier linked to the funding, if identified.

grid_id

Literal: String

Dimensions organisation identifier (GRID) 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.

NonPatentCitationReference

Field

Type

Description

publication_id

Literal: String

Dimension’s publication identifier for the citation within the patent.

source

Literal: String

Location within the patent of the non-patent citation, current options are front_page or in_text.

OrangeBookRecord

Field

Type

Description

applicant_full_name

Literal: String

Full name of the firm holding legal responsibility for the new drug application.

application_number

Literal: String

FDA assigned number to the application.

drug_name

Literal: String

Trade name of the product as shown on the labelling.

ingredients

Array of < Literal: String >

Active ingredient(s) for the product.

SimpleCategorization

Field

Type

Description

full

Array of < Entity: SimpleCategory >

A complete listing of category values, assigned to this particular record, including the unique Dimensions identifier associated with each catergory value.

values

Array of < Literal: String >

Listing of all catergory values assigned to this particular record.

SimpleCategory

Field

Type

Description

id

Literal: String

Dimensions specific identifier assigned to the category value.

value

Literal: String

Category value associated with the simple classification scheme.

SystematicCategorization

Field

Type

Description

codes

Array of < Literal: String >

Listing of all catergory specific codes assigned to this particular record.

full

Array of < Entity: SystematicCategory >

A complete listing of category values, assigned to this particular record, including the unique Dimensions identifier associated with each catergory value.

SystematicCategory

Field

Type

Description

code

Literal: String

Numeric or non-numeric category value code. Value is classification scheme specific.

id

Literal: String

Dimensions specific identifier assigned to the category value.

name

Literal: String

Individual category value description, excluding the classification scheme specific code prefix.

SystematicCategoryLevel

Field

Type

Description

codes

Array of < Literal: String >

A consolidated list of all category-specific codes at a particular classification level, assigned to this record.

full

Array of < Entity: SystematicCategory >

A listing of category values at a specific classification level, assigned to this particular record, including the unique Dimensions identifier associated with each category value.

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 rcdc_v1

Entity: SimpleCategorization

Deprecated in favor of: category_rcdc

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.