In this paper, by preprocessing the international patent classification(IPC) symbol and the applicant in the patent document data using R, respectively, the patent-IPC and the applicant-IPC symbol data matrix were generated. When analyzing the IPC sym...
In this paper, by preprocessing the international patent classification(IPC) symbol and the applicant in the patent document data using R, respectively, the patent-IPC and the applicant-IPC symbol data matrix were generated. When analyzing the IPC symbol, it is suggested to use the complete patent-IPC symbol data matrix. Since this matrix is a sparse matrix, it is proposed to use the applicant-IPC symbol data matrix for technical analysis as a way to reduce the sparsity. As an application example, patent trend analysis and applicant-IPC symbols were clustered and visualized using patent document data related to secondary batteries for electric vehicles.