New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- The AI capability we unlocked this week is based on Perplexity AI's Patent Search.

Innovation teams and R&D groups often spend months developing ideas, only to discover late in the process that closely related patents already exist. This can lead to costly pivots, legal exposure, or even abandoned projects after significant investment. Traditional patent databases rely on rigid keyword and Boolean searches, which can be challenging to use without IP expertise, and often make it difficult to view the broader landscape of related filings across jurisdictions.​

Perplexity Patents addresses this by combining natural language search with an AI patent research agent that works over a dedicated patent index. Perplex...