# Prior-art patent search by keyword

**Use case:** 

Search US patents by keyword for prior art — titles, abstracts, claims, assignee, inventor, citations and CPC as clean JSON. No USPTO account needed.

## Input

```json
{
  "query": "machine learning",
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "include_raw": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "publication_number": {
    "label": "Publication #",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "assignee": {
    "label": "Assignee",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "inventor": {
    "label": "Inventor",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "filing_date": {
    "label": "Filing Date",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "grant_date": {
    "label": "Grant Date",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "claims_count": {
    "label": "Claims",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "google_patents_url": {
    "label": "Google Patents",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [USPTO Patent Search — Prior-Art Search API](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uspto-patent-search) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uspto-patent-search) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.