Best Patent Research Apps for iPhone

Perplexity Patents is the world’s first AI-powered patent research agent designed to make intellectual-property intelligence accessible to everyone, replacing difficult keyword-based searches with natural-language prompts that retrieve and summarize relevant patents and prior art in real time. Unlike traditional tools, it supports conversational queries and surfaces inventions even when exact terms differ (for example, matching “fitness trackers” to patents covering “activity bands” or “health-monitoring wearables”). The system goes beyond patent databases by also exploring academic papers, software repositories, and other unconventional sources of prior art, and presents results in an integrated viewer with links to original documents. Behind the scenes is an advanced agent-based research engine that breaks down complex queries into retrieval tasks using a patent-knowledge index at a massive scale, and maintains context across follow-ups.