Patent Intelligence ZY

Patents Citing This Patent

Find later patents that cite a patent you are researching. Call the Patents Citing This Patent API via REST or MCP from 10 credits per call.

MCP tool name

nexscope_patent_cited_by

MCP endpoint

https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp

JSON-RPC method

tools/call

Authentication

Use OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code with PKCE and the mcp:tools scope. API keys remain supported as a compatibility option.

Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If authentication fails, ask the user to open API Access and copy a valid key.

Call this MCP tool

Initialize an MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP session at https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp, then use tools/call.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "patent-cited-by-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "nexscope_patent_cited_by",
    "arguments": {
      "patentNumber": "US10123456B2"
    }
  }
}

MCP 2025-11-25 · Streamable HTTP

Progress is delivered on the original POST SSE response. GET SSE carries notifications; reconnecting must query existing asynchronous work rather than submit again.

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Description
`patentId`	`string`	optional	One or up to 100 Nexscope patent IDs separated by English commas; maximum 60,000 characters. Takes precedence when both identifiers are provided. Example: patent-id
`patentNumber`	`string`	optional	One or up to 100 publication or grant numbers separated by English commas; maximum 60,000 characters. Example: US10123456B2

Response fields

Treat structuredContent as the programmatic API response payload.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`total`	`integer`	optional	Number of records. Example: {}
`data`	`array`	optional	Patent List. Example: {}
`columns`	`array`	optional	Rendered column definitions. Example: {}
`costToken`	`integer`	optional	Consume token. Example: {}
`type`	`string`	optional	Rendering style. Example: {}
`patentId`	`string`	optional	Patent ID. Example: {}
`pn`	`string`	optional	Public (announcement) number. Example: {}
`citedBy3y`	`integer`	optional	Number of citations in 3 years. Example: {}
`citedBy5y`	`integer`	optional	Number of citations in 5 years. Example: {}
`citedBySimpleFamily`	`integer`	optional	Number of patents cited by simple homologous families. Example: {}
`citedByInpadocFamily`	`integer`	optional	INPADOC Number of cited patents in the same family. Example: {}
`citedByPatsnapFamily`	`integer`	optional	Nexscope Number of cited patent families. Example: {}
`citedByPatents`	`array`	optional	List of cited patents. Example: {}

Examples

Example arguments

{
  "patentNumber": "US10123456B2"
}

Example structuredContent

{}