Lymba Patent Search
A patent is a property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the US or importing the invention into the US” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.
Lymba Patent Search is a tool that allows users to check the full description of a concept or an idea against the entire United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database of patents and patent applications. This process is fully automated and the response could come back to the end-user in a matter of minutes.
The USPTO database is normally updated every Tuesday, the day patents are issued. Exceptions may occur for Federal holidays and when problems arise with data availability. Current US classifications are normally updated every two months. Lymba’s patent database follows a similar weekly updating process.
Lymba Patent Search attempts to find whether or not there are patents similar to the idea described by the user. The system regularly checks the USPTO for updates, indexes these updates, and provides real time access to the collection of patents for search purposes. The underlying technology is based on question answering, but is adapted for multi-sentence concept descriptions.
Our product uses advanced semantic searches of sentences against documents; it does not rely on simple keyword searches. A specially designed user interface allows for rapid and efficient searches through extremely large databases of documents.
To learn more about how your organization can benefit from using natural language processing solutions from Lymba, please contact us.