This field contains the normalized name of the patent applicant. The normalized assignee name is a modified assignee name for preventing confusion caused by different expressions for one company name. For example, a company of patents\' applicant can be written in many different ways - Company, Limited, Co., Ltd, or Company, etc., and the assignee name field may even contain misspellings. The normalized assignee name is a representative of these various notations and is free from typos.
This field is available only for US patent data and is not applicable for individual assignees. |