TechTransfer

Number of APIs: 1

TechTransfer

Patents, Software, and Tech Transfer Reports

NASA's Technology Transfer Program ensures that innovations developed for exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public. The NASA patent portfolio is available to benefit US citizens. Through partnerships and licensing agreements with industry, these patents ensure that NASA’s investments in pioneering research find secondary uses that benefit the economy, create jobs, and improve quality of life. This endpoint provides structured, searchable developer access to NASA’s patents, software, and technology spinoff descriptions that have been curated to support technology transfer. More information can be found at technology.nasa.gov and software.nasa.gov and spinoff.nasa.gov.

HTTP Request

GET https://api.nasa.gov/techtransfer

Query Parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
patentstringNoneReturn a JSON of patents that match the string provided
patent_issuedstringNoneReturns patent results in a JSON that match the string within the information about how issued each patent
softwarestringNoneReturns JSON of NASA software that matches given string.
SpinoffstringNoneReturns spinoff examples that match given word.

Example query

https://api.nasa.gov/techtransfer/patent/?engine&api_key=DEMO_KEY

  1. TechTransfer GET https://api.nasa.gov/techtransfer/patent/?engine&patent&patent_issued&software&Spinoff