Ask Amplified a Question About Your Results

You've searched, added keywords, and iterated on your results. Now you have a solid set — but reading every patent would take hours. Let Amplified do the reading for you.

Ask Amplified lets you ask a specific question, and AI reads each patent to answer it. You also have the option to filter using Amplified's response.

Ask a question

Select the patents you want to evaluate — click Select All to include your entire result set, or select specific patents individually.

Once results are selected, open the Actions menu and choose Ask Amplified.

Type your question in the prompt section. Check Create a filter to turn the answers into a filterable column in your results. This forces the AI to answer with a Yes, No, or Maybe. For other tasks like categorizing patents, leave the filter option off.

Click Ask. Amplified reads through each selected patent and answers your question.

Tip: If you've been iteratively saving patents to a list while exploring different search techniques, then open that List under Search within and Select All. This lets you consolidate results in one place and then analyze them all at once.

Review the answers

Each patent gets Amplified's answer. If you had filters on, then each patent gets a Yes, No, or Maybe answer, along with a brief explanation of the AI's reasoning.

Your questions and answers are automatically saved to My Q&A so you can revisit them later.

What makes a good question

Specific questions get the best results:

> "Does this patent describe a drone with rotors that automatically fold before landing?"

Vague questions produce vague answers:

> "Is this patent relevant to drones?"

Tip: Ask Amplified uses an LLM, so feel free to experiment with additional instructions — not just simple yes/no questions. For example: "Does this patent describe automatic rotor folding? If yes, explain how the folding mechanism is triggered." or "Please categorize this patent into one of the following groups: light sensors, cameras, radar. If the patent could belong to multiple categories pick the one that the patent is the most focused on."

Ask multiple questions

You can ask more than one question about the same patents. Each question creates its own separate column with its own set of Yes/No/Maybe answers.

This is powerful for breaking down a complex analysis — ask one question per feature or limitation, then filter across all of them.

Filter Results by Ask Amplified Answers

After Ask Amplified has answered your question across a set of patents, you can filter your results to show only the patents that got a "Yes" — instantly turning hundreds of results into a focused shortlist.

After Ask Amplified finishes processing, click the filter icon next to the Ask Amplified header. The icon turns green when filters are active.

This will open a side panel where you can check Yes, No, or Maybe for each of the questions that you asked. Select Yes to show only patents where the AI confirmed a match, then click Filter search results.

Your result list updates immediately. You're now looking at only the patents where Amplified confirmed your specific feature or limitation is present.

Patents that haven't been analyzed yet will automatically be excluded so don't forget to remove the filter when you start searching again.

Good to know

• For quick patent overviews without a specific question, try Generate AI summaries of patents instead.
• For detailed feature-by-feature analysis with documented evidence and paragraph numbers you can Map Coverage with the Feature Matrix