Google Patents covers the entire collection of granted patents and published patent applications from the USPTO, EPO, and WIPO. US patent documents date back to 1790, EPO and WIPO to 1978. Google Patents can be searched using patent number, inventor, classification, and filing date.

Prefix

google.patent

Alternative Prefixes

patent Patent

Links

Homepage

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in Google Patents should match this regular expression:
^[A-Z]{2,4}\d+([A-Z])?([0-9])?$

Example Local Unique Identifiers

US4145692   Resolve
USRE38117E1   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Google Patents should match this regular expression:
^google\.patent:[A-Z]{2,4}\d+([A-Z])?([0-9])?$

Example CURIEs

google.patent:US4145692
google.patent:USRE38117E1

Contact

Missing Contact

Identifier Space Owner

Google Incorporated

Contributor

contributor Benjamin M. Gyori   0000-0001-9439-5346   bgyori

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

ChEBI Data Sources

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier US4145692 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Google Patents. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Semantic Farm are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.