Artificial intelligence for patent prior art searching

This study explored how artificial intelligence (AI) could assist patent examiners as part of the prior art search process. The proof-of-concept allowed experimentation with different AI techniques to suggest terms, retrieve most relevant documents, rank them and visualise their content. suggested that is less effective in formulating queries but can reduce time cost process sifting through a large number patents. highlighted importance humanin-the-loop approach need for better tools human-centred decision performance support searching.