What happens when you hit “go” on Patentopia?
The User Interface is hosted on Hostgator, which runs a Python script on AWS. This script calls the APIs published by PatentsView to search their database:
When the input parameter is “assignee”, Patentopia searches the entire PatentsView database for a match on USPTO Assignee Name (AN) – in PatentsView this is known as “Assignee Organization”.
When the input parameter is “inventor”, Patentopia executes the same search on the USPTO Inventor Name (IN).
Many students developed this code over several years, including developing a predecessor code before the APIs were released. We would like to thank Chaitanya Ambegaonkar, Vaibhav Desai, Saarthak Khanna, Rohan Madhani, Shivesh Murali, Saanchi Muthya, Karan Nair, Nikita Parmar, Anusha Ramakrishnan, Devansh Shah, and Sanjiv Soni for their hard work.