Get inventor information — extract

Extract inventor information from patent/application documents or examination records.

extract_inventors(input)

Arguments

input: A data.frame of documents (as returned from uspto_download) or a list of examination records (as returned from download_peds).

Value

A data.frame with inventor information.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# download an application
application <- uspto_download("US-20040216465-A1")

# get inventor information from it
extract_inventors(application)

# get the same from examination record
extract_inventors(download_peds("applId:10612573"))
}