Y'all, I finally found a use for ChatGPT (and other similar LLMs) in my work.
Have you ever read a patent, and felt like it wasn't written in English? Even if you know something about the field, it just doesn't seem to communicate concepts in a way most humans can understand.
I've spent a lot of time trying to read and understand patents, and I've spent a lot of that time not understanding what I am reading. Even some of the simpler inventions I've shared--like the cat tree in this post--may have sections difficult to comprehend.
Well, for my third post on ChatGPT (and other LLM AIs), I can tell you it has finally helped me in a significant way: ChatGPT will explain a patent to you in simple, plain English.
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| Requesting an explanation |
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| Most of the explanation provided |
Of course, significant limitations should be applied. If you provide a patent number to the free, historical info-only version of ChatGPT, chances are it will tell you about the wrong patent.
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| Thanks for explaining something else |
And if the text you copy from a patent into the text entry box is too long to get around that, it will cause an error and not be able to respond.
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| I'm uncertain what amount of text is too much |
But the live info-version of ChatGPT that powers Bing Chat Enterprise did provide a good explanation for Rice's most recent patent, US 11,767,291 "Preparation of Secondary Amines with Electrophilic N-Linchpin Reagents", without me needing to copy and paste the patent's text.
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| This was a really good explanation that included molecule diagrams! |
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| Bing decided it didn't want to deal with my corrections |
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| You might also get a "link" that is just plain text |
Oh, and you have to use Microsoft Edge to access Bing Chat. Not my preferred internet browser.
But even with these somewhat significant drawbacks, at least I got an explanation for what all these embodiments and disclosures really mean.
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