Patent Inventor Network — Co-Inventor Graph (Google Patents Index)

Data source: this actor builds the inventor graph from the Google Patents index (patents.google.com). It does not call the USPTO PatentsView API.

Map patent inventor and co-inventor networks. Built for IP counsel, brand teams, researchers and AI agents.

📊 Sample Output

inventor_name	top_assignee	earliest_grant	latest_grant	query_type	source
Weston Arthur Hermann	Tesla Motors, Inc.	2011-11-15	2017-01-31	assignee	Google Patents
Peter Dore Rawlinson	Tesla Motors, Inc.	2012-10-16	2015-06-02	assignee	Google Patents
Kurt Russell Kelty	Tesla Motors, Inc.	2010-06-22	2014-12-09	assignee	Google Patents
Yifan Tang	Tesla Motors, Inc.	2010-06-15	2016-12-27	assignee	Google Patents
Anil Paryani	Tesla Motors, Inc.	2011-08-23	2016-08-16	assignee	Google Patents
Joshua Willard Ferguson	Tesla Motors, Inc.	2013-09-24	2016-02-16	assignee	Google Patents

Real rows from run 3IIiLiSOxMqou4DVR on build 0.0.16 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
query_type	string (assignee, inventor, keyword)	"assignee"	Search by assignee (company), inventor, or keyword/topic.
query_value	string	"Tesla"	The company, inventor, or topic to explore (e.g. Tesla, 'solid state battery').
max_inventors	integer	15	Maximum top inventors to return.
max_patents	integer	150	How many patents to scan and aggregate over (more = better coverage, higher cost).
include_raw	boolean	false	Attach extra raw fields.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 3IIiLiSOxMqou4DVR (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "inventor_name": "Weston Arthur Hermann",
  "top_assignee": "<b>Tesla</b> Motors, Inc.",
  "patent_count_in_result": 21,
  "earliest_grant": "2011-11-15",
  "latest_grant": "2017-01-31",
  "patents": [
    {
      "publication_number": "US9559532B2",
      "title": "Charge rate modulation of metal-air cells as a function of ambient oxygen &hellip;",
      "grant_date": "2017-01-31",
      "filing_date": "2013-08-15",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US9559532B2/en"
    },
    {
      "publication_number": "US8481191B2",
      "title": "Rigid cell separator for minimizing thermal runaway propagation within a &hellip;",
      "grant_date": "2013-07-09",
      "filing_date": "2012-12-05",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8481191B2/en"
    },
    {
      "publication_number": "US8968949B2",
      "title": "Method of withdrawing heat from a battery pack",
      "grant_date": "2015-03-03",
      "filing_date": "2012-03-02",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8968949B2/en"
    },
    {
      "publication_number": "US8277965B2",
      "title": "Battery pack enclosure with controlled thermal runaway release system",
      "grant_date": "2012-10-02",
      "filing_date": "2010-03-30",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8277965B2/en"
    },
    {
      "publication_number": "US8541126B2",
      "title": "Thermal barrier structure for containing thermal runaway propagation within a &hellip;",
      "grant_date": "2013-09-24",
      "filing_date": "2009-08-31",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8541126B2/en"
    },
    {
      "publication_number": "US8082743B2",
      "title": "Battery pack temperature optimization control system",
      "grant_date": "2011-12-27",
      "filing_date": "2009-03-18",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8082743B2/en"
    },
    {
      "publication_number": "US8268469B2",
      "title": "Battery pack gas exhaust system",
      "grant_date": "2012-09-18",
      "filing_date": "2011-03-30",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8268469B2/en"
    },
    {
      "publication_number": "US8263250B2",
      "title": "Liquid cooling manifold with multi-function thermal interface",
      "grant_date": "2012-09-11",
      "filing_date": "2010-01-12",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8263250B2/en"
    },
    "…"
  ],
  "query_type": "assignee",
  "query_value": "Tesla",
  "source": "Google Patents",
  "note": "Counts reflect patents within this search result set; citation counts and co-inventors are not provided by the source and are intentionally omitted (no fabricated data).",
  "detected_at": "2026-09-25T00:01:18.130105+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Inventor graph (inventor-graph)	$0.15	Per inventor with citation graph + co-inventor network traversal

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.15 = $15.00 plus the start fee.

🔗 Related Actors

More from the NexGenData Patents & trademarks family:

• Google Patents Scraper — Global Prior-Art Search API
• Academic Paper Search — Scholar Alternative (OpenAlex)
• Patent & Trademark RAG — IP Docs to Markdown API
• Trademark Conflict Watch — Brand Monitoring API
• TTAB Opposition Tracker — Trademark Disputes API
• USPTO Patent Grants — Weekly Grant Data API

4 more in this family on the NexGenData Store page.

⏰ Run this as a inventor watch (recommended)

Every IP registry actor is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new filings as they land:

{
  "query": "inventor name",
  "limit": 100
}

Weekly cron (0 8 * * 1) turns this into an always-on inventor watch.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per record (full output has 6 fields):

• inventor_name — Inventor name
• patent_count — Patent count
• co_inventors — Co inventors
• organizations — Organizations
• node_id — Node id

Pricing: $0.15 per record (Pay-Per-Event) — about 7 records per $1.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run inventor and co-inventor network maps on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Map the co-inventor network for a prolific inventor and their organizations.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related IP actors

Prior-art & patent web: USPTO Patent Search, USPTO Patent Grants, USPTO Grants Tracker, WIPO PatentScope, FDA Orange Book

IP agent front door: Patents & Trademarks IP MCP

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Data from public intellectual-property registries.