Patents are a buying signal. We rebuilt ours from the string up.

Most GTM teams treat patents as legal trivia. They are not. Raw patent data has always been unusable for go-to-market: the bulk grant file hands you a legal-entity string and an inventor name — not a company you can assign to a rep, not a contact you can reach. Turning that into a clean, routable signal is the whole job, and it is exactly what this relaunch fixes.

How many signals is this, really?

Our last weekly delivery was 24,213 patent signals — 11,223 company and 12,990 contact, split into two buckets on a universal schema. Patent grants and their inventor contacts do the volume; law-firm edges, velocity snapshots, and challenges layer on top. We expect this to climb toward 40,000 a week as coverage scales.

These are real delivered counts, not projections. Coverage widens as the filing history deepens, and none of the growth comes at the cost of a resolution shortcut — which is the part that actually matters.

Four subtypes, four go-to-market questions

One “new patent” event becomes four distinct signals — each routable on its own, or composed into a full account picture. Open any one to see the full signal envelope: every field, exactly as it ships.

Why you can trust the resolution engine

A signal is only as good as the entity behind it. The bulk grant file gives you a legal-entity string — QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, GLOBAL HOLDINGS LLC — and a list of inventor names. Turning those into a company you can route and a person you can reach is the entire problem, and it is where most patent data quietly breaks. Here is how we do it, and why it holds up.

CPC codes are how we know what a company actually does

Every grant carries Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) codes — the patent office’s own taxonomy of what the invention is. We decompose them: the primary subclass maps to a technology area, and the mix of sections across a company’s portfolio tells us whether it is fundamentally a software, hardware, chemistry, or biotech shop. That derived picture is not just delivered as a field — it is fed back into resolution as the disambiguation hint, which is what separates a GLOBAL HOLDINGS LLC that files neural-network patents from the identically-named holding company that files nothing.

Accepted only above a bar — and with a margin

We hand the assignee string, a one-line description distilled from the company’s own patent titles, and the CPC-derived technology area to our entity-resolution service. It returns a candidate domain, a confidence, and the margin over the runner-up. We accept only when the confidence clears our bar and the winner beats the next candidate by a margin — a near-tie is rejected even when the top score looks high, because that is exactly the case that produces confident-but-wrong matches. A junk-domain blocklist strips government sites, aggregators, free-email, and encyclopedia pages before anything ships.

Inventors run through the same service — resolved against the name, the employer we just resolved, the geography, and the invention itself. When a match clears the bar we deliver a LinkedIn URL; when it doesn’t, we ship the inventor name-only with a null profile. We never drop the person, and we never invent one.

What you can read off a patent portfolio

Once the entities are clean, the filings themselves become a rich behavioral feed. The reads GTM and data teams pull from it:

• What an account is building — the invention in plain language, tagged to a technology area and dated to the grant. Months ahead of the press release.
• Where R&D is accelerating — trailing 30/60/90/365-day grant counts and a trend classification, so you can time outreach to the upswing rather than chase it.
• What kind of company it really is — the CPC section mix separates a semiconductor shop from a fintech from a biotech, regardless of what the website says.
• Who’s in a fight — PTAB challenges flag six-figure competitive disputes, with both the challenger and the defender resolved to real companies.
• Which firms are inside the account — the outside counsel on the front page is a warm-intro path and a partner-channel target.

Rigor your data team trusts, plays your GTM team runs

The point of all of this: one feed your data team can defend line by line, and a set of plays your GTM team can run tomorrow.