Patent Intelligence ZY

Patent Search

Find patents and their publication numbers for product research. Call the Patent Search API via REST or MCP from 12 credits per call.

MCP tool name

nexscope_patent_search

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-search-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "nexscope_patent_search",
    "arguments": {
      "limit": 10,
      "offset": 0,
      "queryText": "TACD: virtual reality"
    }
  }
}

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
`queryText`	`string`	required	Analytics query expression, at most 12,000 characters; supports TACD:, TAC:, TA: and AND/OR/NOT. Example: TACD: virtual reality
`limit`	`integer`	optional	Number of records, 1–1000; default 10. Example: 10
`offset`	`integer`	optional	Offset, 0–19,999; limit + offset must not exceed 20,000; default 0. Example: 0
`sort`	`array`	optional	Sort entries {field, order}; field is PBDT_YEARMONTHDAY, APD_YEARMONTHDAY, ISD or SCORE; order is DESC or ASC. Example: []
`stemming`	`integer`	optional	Stemming: 1 enabled, 0 disabled (default). Example: 0
`collapseType`	`string`	optional	Deduplication: ALL (default), APNO, DOCDB, INPADOC or EXTEND. Example: ALL
`collapseBy`	`string`	optional	Deduplication sort field: APD, PBD, AUTHORITY or SCORE. Example: {}
`collapseOrder`	`string`	optional	Deduplication order: OLDEST or LATEST. Example: {}
`collapseOrderAuthority`	`array`	optional	Authority priority when collapseBy=AUTHORITY. Example: []

Response fields

Treat structuredContent as the programmatic API response payload.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`errcode`	`integer`	optional	Business status, `200` indicates success. Example: {}
`errmsg`	`string`	optional	Success is `ok`, failure is error description. Example: {}
`total`	`integer`	optional	The number of results returned this time. Example: {}
`data`	`array`	optional	Patent List. Example: {}
`columns`	`array`	optional	Renders column meta information, not data records. Example: {}
`type`	`string`	optional	Rendering style. Example: {}
`costToken`	`integer`	optional	Consume token. Example: {}
`allRecordsCount`	`integer`	optional	Retrieve the total number of hits. Example: {}
`patentId`	`string`	optional	ZY patent ID. Example: {}
`pn`	`string`	optional	Public (announcement) number. Example: {}
`title`	`string`	optional	Patent title. Example: {}
`apdt`	`integer`	optional	Application date (YYYYMMDD). Example: {}
`pbdt`	`integer`	optional	Open day (YYYYMMDD). Example: {}
`apno`	`string`	optional	Application number. Example: {}
`authority`	`string`	optional	Receiving Office, such as `US`. Example: {}
`inventor`	`string`	optional	Inventor, multiple people separated by `\\|`. Example: {}
`originalAssignee`	`string`	optional	Original applicant, multiple separated by `\\|`. Example: {}
`currentAssignee`	`string`	optional	Current applicant, multiple separated by `\\|`. Example: {}

Examples

Example arguments

{
  "limit": 10,
  "offset": 0,
  "queryText": "TACD: virtual reality"
}

Example structuredContent

{}