Glossary

Term	Definition
Abstract	Searches the patent abstract text
Aggregation	A calculation but usually used to refer specificly to Elastic / Scholarly search index.
Angular	Client side application framework
Application Date	The date when the application was filed
Applicants	Individual(s) or entities that submit a patent application to a patent office.
Attested Collection	An attested collection is an institutional collection to which an institution has formally attested to having an affiliation with the works in that collection.
Author Affiliation Name	The author's affiliated institution and address
Author Display Name	The author's full name (first name, middle name/initial, last name)
Author First Name	The author's first name
Author Last Name	The author's last name
Backbone	Legacy client side application framework
bambi	Codebase that contains the server component of our “frontend”. Serves web pages and apis that proxy to backend search indexes. Also contains middleware such as Collections and Authentication
Chemical Substance Name	Name of the chemical substance. Substance reflects the chemical field listed in PubMed records
Citation Id	The external identifier(s) for cited scholarly works (DOI, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID or Microsoft Aacademic ID)
Citation Id	The external identifier(s) for cited scholarly works (DOI, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID or Microsoft Aacademic ID)
Cited By Patent Count	Number of patents documents citing a patent (Forward patent citations)
Cited by Scholarly Works	Indicates if the scholarly work has been cited by a another scholarly work at least once.
Cites	The numeric Lens ID of a scholalry work cited in the reference list of other scholarly works.
Cites Patent Pub Key	Patent documents citing US_7128866_B1
Citing Patents	Number of individual patents that incorporate the scholarly works in your results list. Patents in this set can often be a variety of patent document types for example: Granted patents, Patent Application and so on.
Clinical Trial Registry	The clinical trial registry
Commercial Institution	Any legally incorporated entities, including corporations, LLCs and LLPs, whose principal purpose is to make money; including publishers, innovative businesses, investors, law firms, consultancies, or contract research organizations.
Conference Date	The date of the conference
Conference Instance	The conference instance or edition
Conference Location	The location of the conference
Conference Name	The name of the conference
Conference Year	The year the conference was held
Continuation in part	Applicant modifies some claims, names, or content in a patent application, they will be entitled to file a continuation in part application but will not be able to keep the filing date of the original application unless they petition.
CPC Classifications	Cooperative patent classification codes
Custom Analysis	A set of custom visualisations based on a single search/collection
D3	Data visualisation library
Dashboard	A set of pre-configured / saved visualisations
Date Published	Date of publication
DocDB	DocDB or INPADOCDB (INternational PAtent DOCumentation DataBase) is the main Patent database of the EPO (European Patent Office). The International Patent Documentation Center file contains bibliographic and family data or patent documents and utility models of more than 100 patent-issuing organisations, including the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). In addition, the legal status data of 77 patent issuing organisations. Patent Citations from 31 countries are also available.
Divisional application	A patent may protect only a single inventive concept. Further inventive concepts using the same specification may be divided out into new applications (‘divisional’ applications) which keep the filing date of the original application (the ‘parent’ application)
Earliest Actual Filing Date	The earliest actual filing date is the earliest of (1) The filing date of a non-provisional patent application (2) The filing date of the earliest priority application (3) The PCT Filing (4) Earliest in the chain of continuation filings (divisional, continuing,continuation in part)
Earliest Priority Date	The earliest priority date of the application is the filing date of the earliest patent that disclosed the invention initially. It may include provisional and foreign filing date and is not used as the actual Earliest filing date for the term calculation.
Effective Filing Date	The effective filing date is the earliest of (1) the filing date of a patent or patent application including a claim to the invention, or (2) the filing date of the earliest priority application (i.e., the earliest filed provisional, non-provisional, international, or foreign application) to which a patent or patent application is entitled to a right of priority for the claimed invention.
Extended patent family size
Facet	Usually the result of a doc_count aggregation on either search index. e.g. Top 10 Applicants.
Filing Date	Actual filing date of the patent application
Filter	The additional filtering
Full Text	Searches the full text of the patent
Funding Country	The country of the funding body
Funding Organisation	Name of the funding organisation
Has Chemical	Indicates if the scholarly work has an associated chemical substance
Has Clinical Trial	Indicates if the scholarly work has clinical trial information
Has Funding	Indicates if the scholarly work has funding information
INPADOC	INPADOC (International Patent Documentation) is an international patent collection database produced and maintained by the European Patent Office (EPO). The Patent database also provides legal status information for Patents from 44 jurisdictions: AT,AU,BE,BG,BR,CA,CH,CL,CN,CZ,DD,DE,DK,EE,EP,ES,FI,FR,GB,GE,GR,HU,IE,IL,IT,JP,KE,KR,LT,LU,LV,MC,MD,NL,NO,PH,PT,RO,RU,SE,TW,US,UZ,WO. The database contains information relating to the legal status of Patents however is not a legal instrument.
Institution	The legal entity subscribing to the Institutional Toolkit or other Lens products.
Institutional Account	The Lens account type for ITK subscribers. Includes additional and unique features and functionality not available on other user account types, such as larger collection limits, attested collections, collection embeddable widgets, ect.
Institutional Toolkit (ITK)	The Institutional Toolkit is a collection of tools and features to help institutional subscribers discover, analyse and navigate innovation knowledge either internally or on the Lens.org platform. Access to the ITK is provided via an institutional account.
Institutional Use	Institutional use is any use of the lens.org platform (core tools and features, ITK, data, etc.) by a legal entity that is incorporated for the public-good and advances the public-good mission of the institution.
Institutional User	Institutional Users are registered users that are affiliated with an institution that has an ITK subscription, via the institutional account. An institutional user can be added or removed from an institutional account and will have access to the work area items as set by institutional account administrators.
IPCR Classifications	IPCR patent classification codes
Issue	The journal issue
lens-ui	Codebase that contains the client component of our “frontend”. Primarily CSS, HTML, Javascript and static assets.
MeSH	MeSH terms are the National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary or subject heading list.
MeSH Heading	MeSH terms are the National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary or medical subject headings assigned to PubMed entries. NB MeSH Headings are case sensitive e.g. Calcium not calcium.
Non Patent Citation	The scholarly work (s) disclosed in patent document by either applicant, examiner, or 3rd parties
Npl Lens Id	the open persistent identifiers of the works cited in patents
Open Access Colour	The Open Access colour category
Open Access Colour	The Open Access colour category
Open Access Colour: Bronze	Free to read on the pulisher page, but without a clearly identifiable license
Open Access Colour: Gold	Published in an open-access journal that is indexed by DOAJ
Open Access Colour: Green	Toll access to the publisher page, but there is a free copy in a OA repository
Open Access Colour: Hybrid	Free under an open license in a toll-access journal
Open Access License	The Open Access license type
OpenURL	The Lens uses the OpenURL standard in combination with OCLC's WorldCat repository of Library resolvers to implement the OpenURL standard. This implementation of OpenURL passes the metadata for a scholarly work along to the WorldCat registry, which uses the IP address of the user to redirect the request to the user's institution OpenURL resolver. Depending on the institution's subscriptions and access to services, the resolver will provide the user access to the available version(s) of the scholarly work which the institution has access.
PCT Application	A PCT application is filed to obtain patent protection in multiple jurisdictions through the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The application subsequently enters the national/regional phase to each designated jurisdiction.
Priority Application	Priority applications can be present when (1) an applicant seeks protection for the same invention in multiple jurisdictions (including international treaty applications) (2) an applicant seeks protection for a difference invention that builds upon their previous inventions or (3) a combination of the previous two.
Priority Date	The date of an earlier patent application containing a disclosure of the invention (earliest date on which an applicant may claim priority).
Priority Numbers	The application number(s) of the priority document(s) (in respect to which priority is claimed).
Publication Type	Describes the type of publication or document that is retrieved.
Publication Type	Publication Type (eg. Journal Article, Conference Proceedings, Book, etc.)
Publication Type: book
Publication Type: book chapter	A Book Chapter correponds to a discrete section/chapter or excerpt from a Book or Monograph. Books or Monographs are often authored by disparate groups of scholars or individuals therefore they represent distinct research-based knowledge ona specific topic.
Publication Type: journal article	A Journal article is commonly a document published subsequent to some form of research activity.As a written form, the journal article is often a product of an editorial process to validate the reliability of data, methods and conclusions recorded in the publication and typically focuses upon presenting the method(s), proceedures and results from an investigation into a highly specific aspect or area of science and engineering. A journal is the most ubiquitious form of communicating research and investigation and can often be referred to via other terms such as:Peer-Reviewed Article, Scientific Literature or Scholarly Research Article.
Publication Type: unknown	While Unknown publication types designate science-related publication and documents. An Unknown publication type is both a way to identify works or documents that have been appended to the underlying Lens data pool as a result of web text mining. Unknown document types represent a novel data set due to their proximity to science as a non-uniform dataset. Documents in this set can be Newsletters, Abstracts, Speech Transcripts, Press Releases,Lab Protocols, Product Descriptions etc.
Public-Good Institution	Any legally incorporated entity whose principal purpose is stated as advancing the public-good; for instance government agencies, research and teaching institutions, philanthropic foundations, civil society and non-profits.
Query String	The boolean or keyword query typed into the search input box (optional)
Reference count	The number of works in the reference list of a scholarly work
Reference Text	The the original text string in the references
Referenced By Patent Lens Id	Scholarly works that are cited by a given patent(s).
Referenced By Patent Lens Id Num	Scholarly works that are cited by a given patent(s). Uses the numeric value of Lens ID (see https://support.lens.org/help-resources/basic-help/the-lens-id/)
Relevance	[Describe how Relevance is determined]
Sequence Type	The type of sequence e.g. N - nucleotide, P - peptide
Source Asjc Code	The All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) code
Source Country	The publisher's country
Source Issn	The International Standard Serial Number of the source publication, without hyphenation
Source Publisher	The publisher of the source publication
Spring	Web server framework
Subject	Subject is derived from journals descriptions in Crossref metadata based on the Science Journal Classification Codes
Term Extension	For patents regarding pharmaceuticals, food products, medical devices, or procedures, for which a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval is required, the term of these patents is usually extended to compensate for the delayed processing time.
US Classifications	US patent classification codes
US Patent Terminal Disclaimer	A terminal disclaimer is a process by which a patent’s term is shortened because it duplicates the claims of another patent which expires sooner. Lens only provides a flag if the patents is subjected to terminal disclaimer.
Volume	The journal volume
Year Published	Year of publication