For industry
Find the IP, expertise, and partners that shorten the road.
Building from scratch is the expensive option. Federal laboratories hold licensable technology, test facilities you cannot afford to replicate, and people who have already solved part of your problem.
What you can do
- Search technologies available for transfer and licensing
- Identify licensing and design-around opportunities
- Find complementary capabilities to fill a gap
- Discover federal facilities and experts you can work with
- Match internal technology against published mission needs
- Assemble a team and pursue the funding to build it
How it works
01
Discover beyond the obvious
Search patents, laboratory technologies, federally funded research, facilities, and mission opportunities through one connected layer rather than six disconnected databases.
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Understand what it can actually do
A technical document is translated into mechanisms, inputs, outputs, operating conditions, performance characteristics, and limitations — the properties you can reason about, rather than the words the inventors happened to use.
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See the relationships search misses
Inventors, laboratories, rights holders, research sponsors, prior awardees, complementary technologies, and potential end users — the graph around a record, not the record alone.
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Turn discovery into a pathway
Assemble a candidate configuration, identify the licensing or collaboration route, name the organizations that could build it, and connect it to the funding that could move it.
What we will not claim
Generated applications and combinations are hypotheses, labelled as such, with an evidence confidence reported separately from how promising they look. Patent status and term are estimates with their assumptions attached. Historical records are labelled historical. Where a source is not yet connected, the page says so instead of showing an empty feed as though it were a live one.
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