Search Patents | Captain Docs

import requests
import json
BASE_URL = "https://api.runcaptain.com"
API_KEY = "your_api_key"
ORG_ID = "your_organization_id"
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}",
    "X-Organization-ID": ORG_ID
}
# Search for a company (supports fuzzy names like "OpenAI", domains like "stripe.com")
response = requests.get(
    f"{BASE_URL}/v2/datasets/odyssey/patents/search",
    headers=headers,
    params={
        "q": "OpenAI",
    "limit": 10
    },
    timeout=30.0
)
data = response.json()
print(json.dumps(data, indent=2))

{
  "query": "OpenAI",
  "total_results": 2,
  "patents": [
    {
      "title": "Method and System for Training Large Language Models",
      "abstract": "A method for training transformer-based language models using reinforcement learning from human feedback.",
      "filing_date": "2022-03-15",
      "assignee": "OpenAI Inc.",
      "patent_number": "US11234567B2",
      "publication_date": "2023-09-20",
      "inventors": [
        "John Schulman",
        "Ilya Sutskever"
      ],
      "patent_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US11234567B2/en"
    },
    {
      "title": "Efficient Attention Mechanism for Sequence Processing",
      "abstract": "An improved attention mechanism that reduces computational complexity in transformer architectures.",
      "filing_date": "2021-11-08",
      "assignee": "OpenAI Inc.",
      "patent_number": "US11345678B2",
      "publication_date": "2023-06-15",
      "inventors": [
        "Alec Radford",
        "Jeff Wu"
      ],
      "patent_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US11345678B2/en"
    }
  ]
}

Search for patents by title, inventor, assignee, or classification. Returns matching patents with patent numbers, titles, filing dates, and status.

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Bearer token authentication using API key

Query parameters

limitintegerOptionalDefaults to 10

Maximum number of results to return (1�100, default: 10)

Response

Successful response

querystring

The search query that was executed

resultslist of objects

Array of matching results

total_resultsinteger

Total number of matching results

pageinteger

Current page number

page_sizeinteger

Results per page

patentslist of objects

Matching patents (alias for results)

errorstring or null

Error message if search failed

Errors

401

Unauthorized Error

Authentication

Headers

Query parameters

Response

Errors