Start a New Search

Every search in Amplified starts with a project. A project holds your search description, results, keywords, filters, and notes — all in one place.

Create a project

From your project library, click New project and select Custom project.

Enter your search

In the search input area, write or paste a description of what you're looking for. For most use cases, a few sentences works best — too little (like a couple of key terms) and the AI won't have enough context, too much and you may get a wide range of results.

Try using a description of a technical solution, an abstract from a patent application, or a problem statement from a technical document.

Click Update results. Amplified's AI compares your text against the full text of global patents and ranks results by similarity.

Re-rank by Claim similarity

You'll also see the option to Add claims below the main input. If you want to match specifically on claimed features, enter claims text there and then click Update results. Amplified will compare claim language against claim language to re-rank results. Leave it empty for a more general similarity search.

What you'll see

Results appear ranked by similarity to your description. Each result card shows the patent title, number, priority date, publication date, assignee, and similarity rank.

By default, results are grouped by simple patent family — meaning related publications from the same invention are collapsed into a single result. You can click Simple family to see all the members or switch your result view to group by publication. There is an option for Extended family grouping as well.

Important: Amplified's AI sorts your results but never excludes them. All patents are covered — the AI just puts the most similar ones at the top. The Max results setting controls how many publications are displayed in your project.

Next steps

→ Write a great search description — tips for getting the best results from your first search

→ Search with a patent number — use a known patent as a search seed

→ Highlight keywords in your results — add keywords to see where specific terms appear

→ Understanding your search results — what each part of the result card means