Viewing search results on the Inventors tab

The Inventors tab displays the names of inventors who either develop the technology that is specified in your query, or who worked at the company (assignee) that is specified in your query.

The total number of patents found for this analysis is displayed above the results.

The following columns are including in the Inventors table:

• Inventor: Lists the names of the inventors developing and patenting the technology you are analyzing.
• No. of Patents: Lists the total number of patents issued to each inventor for the technology you are analyzing within the date range you specify.
• Activity Trend: Classifies the innovation activity of each inventor as Accelerating, Constant, Declining, or Low, based on the frequency with which the inventor's name appears in the patents selected for this analysis.

Working with the Inventors table

• To sort information by Inventor, No. of Patents, or Activity Trend, click the corresponding column header.
• To filter the list of inventors by patenting activity, select the type of activity trend from the list in the Activity Trend column header.
• To view an activity trend chart for a specific inventor, click (Activity Trend) for that inventor. This displays a chart of the number of patents issued to that inventor each year (during the date range specified in your query). You can change the type of chart by clicking or .
• To view activity information for a particular inventor, click Tools at the left of that inventor and then click View class distribution for this inventor or View patent list for this inventor.
• To go to a different page, click the desired page number. To navigate the pages sequentially, click the Back or the Forward arrow before and after the page numbers.

Saving patent results

You can save your patent results to the following:

• My Workspaces. You save items to a named project in My Workspaces. (A project is like a folder that contains your saved items.) 
• A file on your hard drive, in any of the following formats:

• • Excel (.xlsx extension)

  • PDF

To save patent results to My Workspaces

1. Click Save, and then click Save to My Workspaces.
2. In the Save to My Workspaces dialog box, select an existing project, or add a new project.
3. If your result set fills more than one page, choose whether to save only the results that are displayed on the current page, or to save all browsable results (between 200 and 1000 results) that are returned on all pages.
4. Click Save.

Exporting patent results

Your query is exported along with all the data that is displayed in your results.

To export patent results to a file

1. Click Save, and then click Export.
2. In the Export Results dialog box, select one of the following file types:
   • Excel
   • PDF
3. If your result set fills more than one page, choose whether to export only the results that are displayed on the current page, or to export all browsable results (between 200 and 1000 results) that are returned on all pages.
4. Click Export.
5. Follow the directions that your browser gives you for downloading data to a file.