niche · -0.3 market industry

Patents

Score 18.3 / 100 21 providers +4 via APIs 16 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (21)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 4 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 2 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (16)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (4)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Patents” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

American Gene Technologies Artemis NASA Open APIs TwinStrand Biosciences

Score breakdown

Frequency
44.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
32.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Intellectual Property 16 co-occurrences Patent Search 5 co-occurrences Trademarks 5 co-occurrences Legal Tech 9 co-occurrences Legal 5 co-occurrences Research 6 co-occurrences Search 8 co-occurrences Open Data 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag16
Provider tag21
Openapi tag6
Openapi op tag12

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