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Search US patents by keyword, retrieve patent details, and look up inventors via PatentsView

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search_patents

Search USPTO patent applications and grants — **without a `granted_after`/`granted_before` bound this returns the APPLICATION corpus sorted newest-FILED-first, not issued patents.** USPTO publishes an

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get_patent

Fetch a single USPTO patent application/grant by application number (`number`, e.g. "16/123,456" or "16123456") or by an already-granted patent number (`patent_number`, e.g. "11646472") — pass whichev

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search_inventors

Search USPTO patent applications by inventor last name. Returns matching applications with title, inventor list, and filing date — sorted newest-filed-first, so this is the APPLICATION corpus (same as

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get_patent_assignments

Retrieve USPTO-recorded assignment/conveyance history for one patent application from the migrated Open Data Portal endpoint. Returns assignors, assignees, execution/recording dates, conveyance text,

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get_patent_transactions

Fetch the full USPTO prosecution/transaction history for one patent application — every dated event the Office recorded against the case (filings, mailings, fee payments, office actions, notices, the

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get_patent_continuity

Fetch the parent/child continuity (priority) chain for one patent application — every earlier application this one claims priority from (continuation, divisional, CIP, provisional, etc.) and every lat

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search_patent_assignments

Search USPTO-recorded patent assignment/conveyance history by assignee, assignor, a granted patent number, or an application number — one of the four is required. Unlike `get_patent_assignments` (whic

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/patents/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/patents/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_patents","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_patents", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("search us patents by keyword, retrieve patent details, and look up inventors via patentsview");