Patent Explorer · Signal & Core

Google Patents finds patents.
Gaptrium™ finds the gap between
what is researched and what is protected.

Every free patent search tool answers the same question: "does this patent exist?" Gaptrium™ answers a different question entirely — "which concepts in my research corpus have zero patent coverage, and where is the protection opportunity?"

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✗ Free patent databases (Google Patents, Espacenet, WIPO)
You search. You find.
You enter a keyword and get a list of patents. You already need to know what to look for. The tool does not tell you what is missing — it only confirms what exists. You will never discover an unprotected concept you did not already suspect.
✔ Gaptrium™ Patent Explorer
You load your corpus. Gaptrium™ finds the gaps.
Load your academic papers and patent filings as two corpora. Gaptrium™ maps which concepts appear heavily in the literature but are absent from patents — revealing unprotected innovation opportunities you did not know to search for.
Real platform output — no synthetic data

Quantum computing corpus:
8 academic papers + 4 patent filings

Eight academic papers — Nature Quantum, PRX Quantum, Science, PRL, npj QI, PRApplied, Quantum, arXiv — cross-referenced against four patent filings from IBM, Google, Fujitsu, and IQM. Gaptrium™ runs the full analysis locally. No files leave the device. What you see below is the exact output from the live platform.

8Academic papers loaded
4Patent filings loaded
10Concepts analysed
3Critical IP gaps found

The Gap Analysis view classifies each concept by its coverage across both corpora. Red cards — quantum mesh topology, topological qubit array, decoherence suppression — show 100% or 87.5% paper coverage with 0% patent coverage. These are the IP gaps. Photonic entanglement bus sits in amber: present in 87.5% of papers but only 50% of patent filings, leaving a 37.5% protection window open. Six concepts are fully covered in green.

Gaptrium™ · DEMO · Quantum Computing IP Gap Analysis · 8 academic papers + 4 patent filings
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Gap Analysis
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Gaptrium™ Gap Analysis — 10 concepts classified by patent coverage: 3 red IP gaps (quantum mesh topology, topological qubit array, decoherence suppression), 1 amber under-protected (photonic entanglement bus), 6 green protected
🔍 Critical finding — 3 concepts researched but unprotected
Quantum mesh topology appears in 100% of papers — 50 total mentions — with 0 patent filings found. Decoherence suppression: 100% of papers, 39 mentions, 0 patents. Topological qubit array: 87.5% of papers, 42 mentions, 0 patents.
Three of the most actively researched concepts in this quantum computing corpus have no corresponding patent filings. These are not niche topics: they appear across the majority of the literature. The absence of patents is not an oversight by the field — it is a gap that any single organisation can move to fill.

The Heat Map shows every document against every concept in a single matrix. Green intensity represents frequency in academic papers — darker means more occurrences. Amber cells mark patent filings. The bottom row is the decisive signal: the first three columns read 0.0% — quantum mesh topology, topological qubit array, and decoherence suppression have not appeared in a single patent filing across the entire corpus, while every academic paper in the set covers them.

Gaptrium™ · DEMO · Heat Map · 12 documents × 10 terms · GREEN = academic coverage · AMBER = patent filing · RED FOOTER = IP gap
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Gap Analysis
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Gaptrium™ Heat Map — 12 documents × 10 terms: 8 academic papers (Nature Quantum, PRX, Science, PRL, npj QI, PRApplied, Quantum, arXiv) and 4 patent filings (IBM, Google, Fujitsu, IQM). First three columns show 0.0% patent coverage.

The Patent Explorer ranks findings by severity. At the top: three critical IP gaps — concepts confirmed unprotected after cross-referencing all filings. Below: one under-protected concept with partial coverage. At the bottom: the six concepts where patent filings adequately cover the research landscape. This is the actionable output — the ranked list an IP strategy team takes into a filing decision.

Gaptrium™ · DEMO · Patent Explorer · IP gap analysis across 8 databases
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Gap Analysis
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Gaptrium™ Patent Explorer — 3 critical IP gaps (quantum mesh topology 50 mentions, topological qubit array 42 mentions, decoherence suppression 39 mentions, all with 0 patent filings), 1 under-protected (photonic entanglement bus, gap window 37.5%), 4 protected concepts
What this means for IP strategy
Eight papers from the most cited quantum computing journals — Nature Quantum, PRX Quantum, Science, PRL — converge on three concepts that IBM, Google, Fujitsu, and IQM have not patented. 131 total mentions across the academic corpus. Zero patent filings. A competitor who files now on any of these three concepts establishes prior art over the entire documented research base. Gaptrium™ found this in a single analysis run, without knowing in advance what to search for.
Why free tools cannot do this

The question free tools answer
is not the question that matters.

Google Patents / Espacenet / WIPO
✗You must already know what concept to search for
✗Cannot cross-reference your own research corpus
✗Cannot identify concepts present in papers but absent in patents
✗No timeline correlation between research peaks and patent filings
✗Results change — no reproducible baseline for IP strategy
✔ Gaptrium™ Patent Explorer
✔Automatically surfaces unprotected concepts from your corpus
✔Cross-references your papers against 8 patent databases simultaneously
✔Pinpoints exact concepts where research leads but protection lags
✔Timeline shows the IP lag window — when the protection opportunity opened
✔Deterministic — byte-identical results for repeatable IP strategy documentation

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