USPTO Inventor, Assginee and Geography Disambiguation Dataset, 1976-2018

Schema: Patent No (x) Inventor Name (y) Inventor Last Name (before the semicolon) Inventor First Name + Middle Name (after the semicolon) Original Sequence of (y) in (x) Disambiguated Inventor ID X,XXX,XXX-Y, where X,XXX,XXX is the very first patent of that inventor and Y is the order of appearance of that inventor in X,XXX,XXX City State Country County name IF IN USA FIPS 5-digit (state + city combined) IF IN USA FIPS 2-digit (state code) IF IN USA FIPS 3-digit (city code) IF IN USA Latitude disambiguated Longitude disambiguated Zipcode IF IN USA Metropolitan statistical area (MSA) IF IN USA Assignee PDPASS Data source: Latitude, longitude: Google MAP API County and FIPS code: US Census Zipcode and ZCTA translation: USPS MSA: US Department of Labor Assignee PDPASS: based on NBER 1976-2006, expanded by way of KNN