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’.
Below is a link to a folder that includes all inventor data for patents granted from January 1976 through March 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.
Each file contains the following columns:
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
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.