Dataset
patent_abstract_uspto
patent_abstract_uspto is a text dataset of U.S. patent abstracts distributed under an MIT license and hosted on the Hugging Face Hub by publisher kaustav16. It contains roughly 9.36 million rows of patent identifiers paired with their corresponding abstract text.
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What this dataset contains
The dataset holds U.S. patent abstracts formatted as Parquet files and loaded via the datasets, pandas, polars, or mlcroissant libraries. The single training split lists 9,361,444 rows, placing the corpus in the 1M–10M size category. No update cadence, publisher affiliation, or refresh policy is stated in the supplied metadata.
Structure and fields
Two string-valued columns are exposed in the schema: patent_id, serving as the document identifier, and patent_abstract, holding the free-text abstract body. No additional metadata columns such as filing date, classification codes, assignee, or inventor fields are present in the documented schema, so any such joins would require external linking.
How analysts use it
Analysts can treat the corpus as a large-scale NLP resource for tasks like topic modeling, similarity search, or trend detection across U.S. granted patents. For investment use cases, the abstracts could support text-mining screens for emerging technology themes or litigation-relevant language, though enriching the records with dates and assignees would be necessary before drawing time-series or company-level conclusions.
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