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Google Patents Summary API

Google Patents summary usually come along with organic results. It shows the leading inventors, assignees and CPCs summarized from the results. SerpApi is able to scrape, extract, and make sense of summary.

We add them to our JSON output as the array summary.

API Examples

JSON structure overview 

{
  ...
  "summary": {
    "assignee": [
      "key": "String - Name of the assignee",
      "percentage": "String - Percentage of the assignee",
      "frequency": [
        {
          "year_range": "String - Year range of the item",
          "percentage": "String - Percentage of the year range",
        }
      ]
    ],
    "inventor": "Array - Summary of the inventors, the structure is the same as `assignee`",
    "cpc": "Array - Summary of the CPCs, the structure is the same as `assignee`",
  }
  ...
}

Example with q: (Coffee) parameter

Example with q: (Coffee) parameter

JSON Example

{
  ...
  "summary": {
    "assignee": [
      {
        "key": "Total",
        "percentage": 100.0,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2022-2025",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2019-2022",
            "percentage": 2.7
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
       {
        "key": "Nestec S.A.",
        "percentage": 1.5,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2013-2016",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2010-2013",
            "percentage": 0.4
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      {
        "key": "Societe Des Produits Nestle S.A.",
        "percentage": 1.2,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2019-2022",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2013-2016",
            "percentage": 0.2
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      ...
    ],
    "inventor": [
      {
        "key": "Total",
        "percentage": 100.0,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2022-2025",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2019-2022",
            "percentage": 2.7
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      {
        "key": "Ernesto Illy",
        "percentage": 0.6,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "1989-1992",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "1983-1986",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      {
        "key": "Daniel Fischer",
        "percentage": 0.6,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2007-2010",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2004-2007",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      ...
    ],
    "cpc": [
      {
        "key": "Total",
        "percentage": 100.0,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2022-2025",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2019-2022",
            "percentage": 2.7
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      {
        "key": "A47J",
        "percentage": 66.7,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2022-2025",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2019-2022",
            "percentage": 1.7
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      {
        "key": "A23F",
        "percentage": 19.5,
        "frequency": [
          {
            "year_range": "2022-2025",
            "percentage": 0.1
          },
          {
            "year_range": "2019-2022",
            "percentage": 0.8
          },
          ...
        ]
      },
      ...
    ]
  },
  ...
}