- Clearer Charts, Tables, and Visual Interpretation
- Charts First for Analytical Questions
- More Predictable and Cleaner Conversation Behaviour
Period covered: Improvements delivered over the last five weeks.
Overview of updates
This release focuses on three practical improvement areas: clearer analytical outputs, stronger chart prioritisation, and more predictable conversation behaviour.
The update makes charts, tables, and metric descriptions easier to interpret during patent analysis. This includes improved colour handling, table spacing, number formatting, bubble chart visibility, and filing year defaults.
The release also helps users stay in the flow of analysis. Analytical questions are more likely to start with a chart when suitable data is available, while follow up prompts and output limitations behave more predictably.
Most impactful for:
Visual interpretation: clearer charts, tables, number formatting, and filing year handling
Analytical review: stronger prioritisation of charts before supporting tables
Conversation continuity: fewer interruptions from confusing follow up messages or unnecessary page clutter
Clearer Charts, Tables, and Visual Interpretation
What has changed?
Protégé now presents charts, tables, and metric values more consistently. This includes PatentSight+ “rainbow” colour, full opacity for bubble charts, improved table spacing, enhanced number formatting, and better Filing Date defaults.
Why it matters
These changes make it easier to compare owners, technologies, filing trends, and key metrics such as Patent Asset Index and Portfolio Size without spending time interpreting avoidable visual inconsistencies.
Analytical behaviour
Charts use clearer colour and opacity defaults.
Tables make better use of available width and avoid unnecessary mid word wrapping.
Numbers are formatted more consistently with decimal separators across visualisations and response text.
Filing Date charts exclude the most recent two years by default unless explicitly requested.
Constraints and implications
Wide tables use horizontal scrolling where needed.
Users can still ask to include the most recent filing years. When recent filing years are shown, a warning helps users avoid reading publication lag as a confirmed drop in filing activity.
Example
An analyst comparing VW, GM, and BYD across EV and connectivity patents can more quickly scan Patent Asset Index and Portfolio Size results across charts and tables.
Charts First for Analytical Questions
What has changed?
Protégé now gives greater priority to charts when users ask analytical questions and suitable data is available. Tables are still used and provided, but mainly as supporting detail after the chart.
Why it matters
For comparison, trend, landscape, and portfolio questions, charts usually show the main pattern faster than tables.
Analytical behaviour
Analytical questions are more likely to lead with a chart.
Supporting tables appear after the visual result.
Direct fact retrieval can be answered without a chart.
Constraints and implications
Chart first behaviour depends on the question type and available data.
Example
When asking who leads in solid state battery patent filings and which applicant types dominate, users can first see a chart of leading owners before reviewing supporting table detail.
More Predictable and Cleaner Conversation Behaviour
What has changed?
Protégé now handles suggested follow ups and output limitations more consistently. Conversation pages are also cleaner, with better input bubble sizing and Prompt Tips hidden once users are already working in a conversation.
Why it matters
These changes reduce small interruptions during exploratory work, especially when users accept suggested next steps or move through several follow up questions.
Analytical behaviour
Suggested follow ups are interpreted with more context.
Warnings about untested use cases are less likely to appear during supported follow up flows.
Conversation page clutter is reduced.
Constraints and implications
Warnings still apply when requests fall outside tested scenarios.
Example
After asking for an overview of the leaders in sodium batteries, a user can just confirm a suggested next step to segment by sub-technologies.
