概要
What is USPTO Patents MCP?
USPTO Patents MCP is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server hosted on Cloudflare Workers for searching and exploring US patent data. It provides patent search, full patent records, assignee portfolios, citation graph traversal, and weekly grant digest webhooks for IP research, prior‑art search, and competitive‑intelligence LLMs. Any MCP‑aware client (Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Continue.dev) can connect with Bearer‑token authentication.
How to use USPTO Patents MCP?
Connect via the hosted endpoint using mcp-remote: npx -y mcp-remote https://uspto-patents-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer mck_YOUR_API_KEY". Obtain an API key from the upgrade page (free tier available at 100 calls/month per IP). Alternatively, use the npm launcher: `npx -y @insnapsprakhar/uspto-patents-m
