# USPTO Patent Grants Tracker — New Grant Alerts API (`nexgendata/uspto-patent-grants-tracker`) Actor

Track new USPTO patent grants matching your watch. Clean JSON for IP counsel, brand teams and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/uspto-patent-grants-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $100.00 / 1,000 patents

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## USPTO Patent Grants Tracker

**Which grants actor?** This is the **alerting** one — scheduled runs surface only NEW grants matching your assignee/keyword watch. For the full bulk grant dataset, use *USPTO Patent Grants*. Track new USPTO patent grants matching your watch. Built for IP counsel, brand teams, researchers and AI agents.

### ⏰ Run this as a grant watch (recommended)

Every IP registry actor is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new filings as they land:

```json
{
  "query": "Apple Inc",
  "limit": 100
}
```

Weekly cron (`0 8 * * 1`) turns this into an always-on grant watch.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per patent (full output has 15 fields):

- `assignees` — Assignees
- `citation_count_received` — Citation count received
- `claim_count` — Claim count
- `cpc_codes` — Cpc codes
- `inventors` — Inventors
- `ipc_codes` — Ipc codes
- `patent_abstract` — Patent abstract
- `patent_date` — Patent date
- `patent_id` — Patent id
- `patent_kind` — Patent kind

**Pricing:** $0.10 per patent (Pay-Per-Event) — about **10 patents per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run USPTO new patent-grant alerts on demand.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
Alert me weekly on new USPTO patent grants assigned to a company.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### 🔗 Related IP actors

**Prior-art & patent web:** [USPTO Patent Search](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uspto-patent-search), [USPTO Patent Grants](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uspto-patent-grants), [WIPO PatentScope](https://apify.com/nexgendata/wipo-patentscope-search), [PatentsView Inventors](https://apify.com/nexgendata/patentsview-inventor-network-graph), [FDA Orange Book](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fda-orange-book-drug-patents)

**IP agent front door:** [Patents & Trademarks IP MCP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/patents-trademarks-ip-mcp-server)

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*Data from public intellectual-property registries.*

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Free-text search across patent title + abstract + claims.

## `assignee` (type: `string`):

Filter by patent assignee/owner organization (case-insensitive).

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Earliest patent grant date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Latest patent grant date (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave blank for 'no upper bound'.

## `cpcPrefix` (type: `string`):

Optional CPC classification filter (e.g. 'G06N' for AI/ML, 'H04L' for networking, 'A61K' for pharma). Leave blank for all.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on patents returned.

## `apiKey` (type: `string`):

Reserved for forward compatibility. The current data source (Google Patents / USPTO public records) requires no key. If you have a USPTO Open Data Portal key you may supply it here for future fallback routing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "machine learning",
  "dateFrom": "2026-05-01",
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "machine learning",
    "assignee": "",
    "dateFrom": "2026-05-01",
    "dateTo": "",
    "cpcPrefix": "",
    "maxResults": 25,
    "apiKey": ""
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/uspto-patent-grants-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "machine learning",
    "assignee": "",
    "dateFrom": "2026-05-01",
    "dateTo": "",
    "cpcPrefix": "",
    "maxResults": 25,
    "apiKey": "",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/uspto-patent-grants-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "machine learning",
  "assignee": "",
  "dateFrom": "2026-05-01",
  "dateTo": "",
  "cpcPrefix": "",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "apiKey": ""
}' |
apify call nexgendata/uspto-patent-grants-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/uspto-patent-grants-tracker",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/X2akKM96mJhWgQtug/builds/VXa4zJfVGd8wrv6vk/openapi.json