# Autonomous Vehicle Patent Data Collection

**Use case:** 

Collect US patent data for autonomous self-driving vehicle lidar. Get insights on patent ID, title, abstract, inventors, and more.

## Input

```json
{
  "query": "autonomous self-driving vehicle lidar",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "sort": "new",
  "maxResults": 500,
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "patent_id": {
    "label": "Patent ID",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "patent_date": {
    "label": "Publication Date",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "assignees": {
    "label": "Assignees",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "inventors": {
    "label": "Inventors",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "cpc_class": {
    "label": "CPC Class",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "type": {
    "label": "Patent Type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "num_claims": {
    "label": "Number of Claims",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "country": {
    "label": "Country",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "patent_url": {
    "label": "Patent URL",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [US Patents Scraper — Search, Keyword & Assignee](https://apify.com/logiover/patentsview-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/logiover/patentsview-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.