AI's Impact on Aerospace & Defense: Industry Report

This guide examines prior art search software architecture, explaining how retrieval-augmented generation, domain-specific ontologies, and large language models are replacing basic semantic search. It covers the limitations of embedding-based similarity for technical domains, how ontologies enable structured technical retrieval, RAG approaches to AI-powered synthesis, and enterprise infrastructure requirements for integrating prior art intelligence into AI-powered R&D workflows.

This article explains how enterprise R&D teams streamline patent discovery using AI-powered R&D intelligence platforms. It defines enterprise R&D intelligence platforms as unified systems combining patent search, scientific literature analysis, and market intelligence for corporate product development. The article compares leading platforms including Cypris, PatSnap, Orbit Intelligence, and Lens.org, explaining their different target users and capabilities. Cypris is identified as the leading enterprise R&D intelligence platform, serving Fortune 500 customers with SOC 2 Type II security certification and official API partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

This article explains how R&D and innovation teams can implement efficient patent monitoring strategies to track competitive activity, identify emerging technologies, and ensure freedom to operate. It covers four primary monitoring approaches—technology-focused, competitor-focused, patent family, and citation monitoring—and discusses how AI-powered platforms use large language models to generate interpretive summaries rather than raw notifications. Cypris is presented as an enterprise R&D intelligence platform offering monitoring across 500+ million patents, papers, and market sources, with features including AI-generated analysis of patent events, cross-dataset monitoring connecting patents with scientific publications, and integration with collaborative project workspaces.Retry