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mrr
Last seen: 04/11/2019 - 12:09
Joined: 04/09/2019 - 21:43
inventor_id construction seems to have been broken by November Update

I noticed today that November's data moves from away from the convention that inventor_id is constructed from the first patent associated with that inventor. In particular, if an inventor has a patent with an ID greater than 10000000, then that patent will be used to construct the ID. Perhaps this followed from taking the min value of patent ID, which did a string comparison? Anyway, please let me know if that was an oversight and what the behavior will be going forward.

Thu, 04/11/2019 - 13:05
PVTeam
Role: moderator
Last seen: 04/23/2024 - 10:43
Joined: 10/17/2017 - 10:47
Re: Inventor_ID Construction

Hi,

The inventor disambiguation algorithm treats patent ids as string, which is why any inventor with a patent id greater than 10000000 is currently getting that particular patent id assigned as the inventor id. We are working towards updating the method so it will use the convention used previously.

Thanks,

PVTeam