Perplexity announces Perplexity Patents (Oct 30, 2025), an AI-powered patent search agent that promises to make intellectual property intelligence accessible to anyone. Are you an inventor, an entrepreneur, or just curious about who already patented an idea? This could save you hours of frustrating searching.
What is Perplexity Patents
It's a conversational interface for patent research: instead of typing exact keyword combinations and learning weird syntax, you ask in natural language. For example, you can send Are there any patents on AI for language learning? or request "key patents in quantum computing since 2024" and get relevant collections with an inline viewer and links to the original documents.
The core proposition: a "citation-first" approach that prioritizes authoritative sources and preserves context across questions. You can follow the conversation, make comparisons, and let the system suggest next research steps.
How it changes patent search
For decades patent search has been specialists' territory: limited public tools and expensive professional platforms. Sound familiar — not finding something because you used a different word? Perplexity Patents looks beyond textual matches. If you ask about “fitness trackers,” it will also show results for “activity bands,” “step-counting watches,” and “health monitoring wearables,” even if those terms don't appear in your query.
