What it returns
Patent grant pace for US-listed companies, by ticker. For each ticker: US patent grants per calendar year (10 years by default, up to 25), grants in the last 12 months against the 12 months before with the percentage change, the newest grants with title, assignees, CPC classes and PDF link, and the company's largest institutional holders from the newest SEC Form 13F data set (number of managers, total value and shares reported).
Patents are counted live from the USPTO Open Data Portal under the company's current name and any former name still in use during the window, as applicant or as assignee in recorded assignments. By default the base name is searched (Microsoft, not Microsoft Corp), which also counts subsidiaries such as Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC; exactNames restricts the search to full legal names, and extraNames adds others (Google for GOOGL). Every result lists the names it searched.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/patents-by-ticker/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ticker | string | One ticker or several, comma separated (up to 25). A company name or CIK also works. |
years | integer | Grants per calendar year for this many years, current year included. Default: 10. |
recentGrants | integer | How many of the newest patents to list. Default: 5. |
topHolders | integer | Largest institutional holders from the newest Form 13F data set. Default: 10. |
extraNames | string | More names to count, separated by ;, e.g. Google for GOOGL. |
exactNames | boolean | Search the full SEC names (Apple Inc.) instead of the base name (Apple), which also catches subsidiaries such as Microsoft Technology Licensing. Default: false. |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/patents-by-ticker/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"ticker": "NVDA", "maxItems": 20}'Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $4.00 per 1,000 records. No charge for errors or empty searches.
Use it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
This API is also an MCP server: https://api.pushbuild.com/mcp/patents-by-ticker. Add it to any assistant that supports remote MCP servers, with your key in the X-API-Key header. Same prices. Setup for each app.
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