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Patent Filing Signals

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See what accounts are building from the patents they are granted. Four subtypes: new grants, portfolio velocity, outside IP counsel, and PTAB challenges, each matched to a company domain.

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Signal Subtypes
4
Refresh Cadence
Monthly
Source
USPTO
Delivery
REST API, GCS Push, Generate Insights API, Flat File
Format
JSONL or Parquet
Bucket
gs://autobound-patents-company/

What Are Patent Filing Signals?

A granted patent is dated, public proof of what a company is building. Autobound turns USPTO patent data into four company signal subtypes: patentGrant for each newly granted US patent, portfolioVelocity for the pace of a company's grants over the past year, usesLawFirm for the outside IP counsel on its recent patent work, and patentChallenge for PTAB trials.

A patentGrant signal carries the patent number, title, abstract (design patents have none), grant date, CPC classification codes, a technology area, the named inventors, and a plain-language explanation of the invention. A portfolioVelocity signal counts grants over the past 30, 60, 90, 180, and 365 days and says whether the pace is accelerating or slowing. A company signal ships only when the patent assignee is matched to a company domain.

Example subtypes

Patent grantpatentGrant

From a real record

Qualcommqualcomm.comOct 27, 2026

Qualcomm was granted a patent for a stepped chip package supporting varied solder balls.

Person
Aniket Patil
Grant date
Oct 27, 2026
Primary CPC class
H10W 90/701
Patent number
US12777986
USPTO assignee
Qualcomm incorporated

Source: patents.google.com

From a patent grant to your next move

What we detect, what you get, and what you do with it. Pick the path that fits your team.

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  1. 0103

    Patents show where R&D money goes

    We read new US patent grants, track each company's grant pace and technology areas, and link each one to the company and its source record.

    1. patents.google.com
    patents.google.comSep 29, 2026

    Over the past year Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited received 153 US patent grants, concentrated in signal transmission and networking / data transmission; the recent pace (24 in 90 days) is slowing versus its trailing baseline.

    Extracted
    Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limitedbroadcom.comcompanyPortfolio velocitysignal_subtype

  2. 0203

    You get one clean record

    Each record names the company and its domain, labels what happened, and links back to the source.

    2. Signal record

    Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

    broadcom.com

    Portfolio velocityportfolioVelocity

    Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited's patent output is slowing: 153 grants in the past year, 8 in the past 30 days.

    “Over the past year Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited received 153 US patent grants, concentrated in signal transmission and networking / data transmission; the recent pace (24 in 90 days) is slowing versus its trailing baseline.”
    Detected
    Sep 30, 2026
    Source
    patents.google.com

    signal_id 33bbf208…

  3. 0303

    Act on it where you work

    Send it to Slack, write it to your CRM, or give it to an AI agent.

    When
    signal_subtype = portfolioVelocity in your top_tech_areas
    Do
    Tooling pitch to the R&D or product leader
    3. Your team acts
    or your own code
    #account-signals

    Signal alert from your workflow

    Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited· Portfolio velocity

    Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited's patent output is slowing: 153 grants in the past year, 8 in the past 30 days.

    Play: Tooling pitch to the R&D or product leader

    Start the playOpen the source

    Illustration. The record fields are real.

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How we build this signal

How we build each patent signal

Every week we read the full list of newly granted US patents and tie each one to the company that owns it.

Source refresh
Weekly (USPTO)
  1. 01

    Source

    USPTO publishes each week's granted patents every Tuesday. A weekly job downloads that file and verifies it is complete before anything runs.

  2. 02

    Company resolution

    Each assignee is resolved to a company domain through our shared resolution service. A company signal with no domain does not ship; it is logged with the reason.

  3. 03

    Signals from the record

    Each grant becomes a signal. Code, not a model, also computes each company's filing pace over the trailing 12 months and the law firms that file for it, from the grant's front page.

  4. 04

    Model writes prose only

    A model writes only the summary, detail, plain-language explanation of the invention, technologies named and tags, and the tags are locked to our taxonomy. Every other field comes from USPTO data or code.

  5. 05

    Dedup and review

    Each signal ID is built from the patent number or another natural key, and a ledger of shipped keys is checked first, so rerunning a week adds nothing. A person checks each staged weekly batch's fill rates and dropped records before it ships.

Patent Signal Schema

Patent signals carry the USPTO assignee, the event date, a summary and detail, and subtype-specific fields. The record below is a real portfolioVelocity signal.

Full schema docs →
{
  "signal_id": "33bbf208-adf1-512f-bb40-df0a0cbde261",
  "signal_type": "patents-company",
  "signal_subtype": "portfolioVelocity",
  "detected_at": "2026-09-30T17:49:20+00:00",
  "association": "company",
  "company": {
    "name": "Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited",
    "domain": "broadcom.com"  // match on domain
  },
  "data": {
    "summary": "Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited's patent output is slowing: 153 grants in the past year, 8 in the past 30 days.",
    "detail": "Over the past year Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited received 153 US patent grants, concentrated in signal transmission and networking / data transmission; the recent pace (24 in 90 days) is slowing versus its trailing baseline.",
    "uspto_assignee": "Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited",
    "event_at": "2026-09-29",
    "event_kind": "velocity_snapshot",
    "precision_class": "structural",
    "window_asof_date": "2026-09-29",
    "grants_30d": 8,
    "grants_60d": 19,
    "grants_90d": 24,
    "grants_180d": 58,
    "grants_365d": 153,
    "grant_velocity_ratio": 0.64,
    "grant_direction": "decelerating",
    "challenges_made": { "90d": 0, "365d": 0 },
    "challenges_received": { "90d": 0, "365d": 0 },
    "unique_inventors": { "90d": 69, "365d": 327 },
    "primary_cpc_subclass": "H01L",
    "cpc_section_mix": { "G": 35, "H": 118 },
    "top_tech_areas": ["signal transmission", "networking / data transmission", "video / streaming"],
    "technologies_mentioned": ["signal transmission", "networking / data transmission", "video / streaming"],
    "source_url": "https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Avago%20Technologies%20International%20Sales%20Pte.%20Limited&country=US&sort=new"
  }
}

Bulk data

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Measured coverage

What's inside Patent Filing Signals

A dated snapshot counted in our production database, not a live count. Minimums, not ceilings.

Coverage for all 35 signal types →
26,720
Companies with fresh data per month
Last 30 days, records through Jul 2, 2026
32,282
Records created per month
Last 30 days, records through Jul 2, 2026

Geography

all 174 countries →
🇺🇸United States7.8K · 13%
🇬🇧United Kingdom2.1K · 3.5%
🇦🇺Australia1.0K · 1.7%
🇨🇦Canada1.0K · 1.7%
🇮🇳India896 · 1.5%
🇩🇪Germany831 · 1.4%
🇫🇷France687 · 1.1%
CA 3.5KNY 1.5KTX 1.4KFL 974IL 754MA 732

Top industries

all industries →
Software Development1.2K · 2.0%
IT Services and IT Consulting882 · 1.4%
Retail842 · 1.4%
Higher Education801 · 1.3%
Advertising Services758 · 1.2%
Financial Services690 · 1.1%
Building Construction687 · 1.1%

Join keys

fill rate
Domain100%
LinkedIn URL79%
Company name100%
Records measured 124,120+Companies reached 61,392+

See for yourself

Check out sample data: real Patent Filing records with the same fields the API returns.

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“Autobound's triggers keep us current with news and job openings, making personalization effortless.”
Oleksandr Demianyk, Demand Generation Manager, TechMagic

Frequently asked questions

What are patent filing signals?
Patent signals turn USPTO patent data into company signals in four subtypes: patentGrant (a newly granted US patent), portfolioVelocity (the pace of a company's grants over the past year), usesLawFirm (the outside IP counsel on its patent work), and patentChallenge (a PTAB trial). Each signal is matched to a company domain and links to its source record.
How does Autobound build patent signals?
Autobound reads USPTO grant data, turns each patent's CPC classification codes into a technology area, matches the assignee to a company domain, and has a language model explain the invention in plain language. A signal without a company domain does not ship. Each signal_id is derived from the event itself, so the same grant always has the same id and you can upsert on it.
How should I use patent data in my outreach?
Reference the specific technology area and patent in your outreach. A named patent is a concrete data point that shows real research. Target the engineering or R&D leadership, not only the C-suite, because patent work is often driven by technical teams. Position your product as support for the specific R&D effort that the patents show.