Open Data: US Granted Patents 1976-2024 + Citation Graph (PatentsView)
Open Data: US Granted Patents 1976-2024 + Citation Graph (PatentsView) — part of the DataForge Open Data program.
Full production packages, free for academic and personal use under CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution + backlink required). Same files as served at https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id> (machine-readable index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data).
Packages
| Package | Tier | Rows | Size | SHA-256 | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
patents-tier1-S-2026-08-02 |
S | 9,075,421 | 7.92 GB | 5117be5e96ff6ac46eedd2079cfbd0d987de6371c5009ba98caace48701a8b17 |
Core granted-patents table: 9.08M US patents 1976-2024 with title, abstract, dates, CPC primary, first assignee (Parquet + CSV + JSONL) |
patents-tier1-M-2026-08-02 |
M | 255,347,795 | 17.24 GB | 9309dad24a37cbc1bda8ba9be45dbc372bf1de11b26606d642f673f30218192c |
Everything in S plus full relationship tables (assignees, inventors, 56.8M CPC assignments, 145.9M citations), 5 company/technology intelligence tables, and ready-made slices by company / CPC section / grant year / country |
Packages larger than GitHub's 2 GiB asset limit are split into
.partNNvolumes.
Reassemble with:cat <name>.zip.part* > <name>.zipthen verify the SHA-256 above.
Data dictionary & datasheet
Field-level documentation lives in this repo under datasets/ and on the portal page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-patents-citation-company-dataset
License
CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer) / commercial license — upstream: USPTO PatentsView CC BY 4.0
- Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution + backlink required.
- Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
- Upstream source: USPTO / PatentsView bulk downloads. Upstream license terms (public domain / CC BY / OGL where applicable) continue to apply to the underlying data.
Citation / attribution
Please credit:
PatentsView (CC BY 4.0); packaged by DataForge (data.zalize.com) — https://data.zalize.com
For attribution-licensed upstreams keep the upstream credit (PatentsView CC BY 4.0; "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0").
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