LPS enables rapid discovery of expertise and serves as a conduit between researchers, subject matter experts, investors and innovators by providing multi-faceted search capability across numerous technology areas and across the National Laboratories. Learn more about LPS.

This portal is meant to enable connection to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) patents and experts, not to provide information about coronavirus or COVID-19. DO NOT contact the individuals and researchers included in LPS for general questions about COVID-19. For information about the virus, please visit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website.

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About the Lab Partnering Service

The Laboratory Partnering Service (LPS) is a suite of online applications enabling access to leading experts, innovations, and patents from across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the national laboratories. It delivers a myriad of information to provide access to a portfolio of investment opportunities. The LPS enables fast discovery of expertise and serves as a conduit between the investor and the innovator, by providing multi-faceted search capabilities across numerous technology areas and the national laboratories.

  • Expert Search

    The Expert Search provides customers a direct conduit to experts from the DOE’s national laboratories. This categorized list is a selection of lab-identified leading experts across several "hot" technology areas with ability to further refine the list of the experts by sub-specialty.

  • Technical Summaries

    The Technical Summaries provide information about the numerous technologies associated with patents, patent applications, and publications from DOE’s national laboratories and other participating research institutions available for licensing.

  • Facility Locator

    Browse more than 200 facility descriptions on LPS and gain insights on leveraging DOE facilities to discover, innovate and bridge the world's most challenging gaps in energy, artificial and space capabilities.

  • Developer API

    A collection of APIs providing data related to energy technologies, experts, and patents associated with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lab Partnering Service (LPS).

  • Visual Patent Search

    This search tool enables a unique, visually-facilitated search of the patent content contained in the Lab Partnering Service. This patent content contains published US patent applications and issued US patents resulting from Department of Energy funded R&D.

    The Visual Patent Search tool was created using two powerful technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the IN-SPIRE™ Visual Document Analysis and the Scalable Reasoning System (SRS). Using these analysis tools, a tiered patent categorization system was created from the "bottom up", enabling Lab Partnering Service to develop a unique way of searching DOE-patents beyond a simple key word search.

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This service is provided for informational purposes only; using this service does not establish a contractual relationship between the user and the United States Government, any agency thereof, any of their employees, any of their contractors, subcontractors or their employees (collectively, Government), nor does a response from an expert constitute endorsement of the user or entities associated with the user by the Government. The Government makes no warranty, express or implied, assumes no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or any third party’s use or the results of such use of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. The views and opinions of experts contacted via this service do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof, its contractors or subcontractors.