​​USPTO Inventor Data
​​This page includes inventor data from the USPTO (https://patentsview.org/download/data-download-tables). I have merged data from ‘g_inventor_not_disambiguated‘, ‘g_location_not_disambiguated’, and ‘g_location_disambiguated’.
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​​Below is a link to a folder that includes all inventor data for patents granted from January 1976 through December 2023. This folder includes nine different zip files. For ease of download and ease of importing, files are divided by patent number. File “inventor_non_utility.tsv.zip” includes all non-utility patents. File “inventor_5m.tsv.zip” includes all patents issued beginning January 1976 through patent number 5,000,000. File “inventor_6m.tsv.zip” includes all patents between patent number 5,000,001 and patent number 6,000,000. Etc, etc.
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​​Each file contains the following columns:
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​​Variable
​​Description
​​patnum
​​Patent number
​​inventor_id
​​USPTO inventor identification
​​first_name
​​First and middle name/initial (if present) of inventor
​​last_name
​​Last name of inventor
​​city
​​City of inventor
​​state
​​State of inventor
​​country
​​Country of inventor
​​disambig_city
​​City of assignee (from disambiguated file)
​​disambig_state
​​State of assignee (from disambiguated file)
​​disambig_country
​​Country of assignee (from disambiguated file)
​​latitude
​​Geographic coordinate
​​longitude
​​Geographic coordinate
​​county
​​County of inventor
​​state_fips
​​State FIPS code
​​county_fips
​​County FIPS code
​​location_id
​​USPTO location identification
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​​If you have any issues downloading the data, find any problems with the data, or have suggestions for how to make the data better/more user friendly, please let me know: mwoeppel@iu.edu. 
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​​Additional USPTO patent data
​​Abstract, title data can be found here.
​​Assignee data can be found here.
​​Citations data can be found here.
​​Claims data can be found here.
​​Classifications data can be found here.
​​Examiner data can be found here.
​​General info data can be found here.
​​Inventor data can be found here.
​​Maintenance fee data can be found here.
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​​Patent-CRSP permco match data
​​Patent numbers matched to permco numbers data can be found here.
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