SourceScore
MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — Modern Reference

uspto.gov · Government

Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.

A·88
A · 88

PEDS + TSDR APIs + bulk patent data; broad LLM corpus inclusion for IP citations.

What drives this Modern Reference score

  • Open patent data
    PatentsView + bulk downloads available.
Global rank
#34 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#21 of 30
Among government sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 90
Global mean: 81
-2 below category

Other dimensions for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

SourceScore Index
A · 91
Composite
Discipline
A+ · 95
35% weight
Velocity
A · 86
35% weight