The Lens is a brand that aims to serve as a free, open, and secure digital public resource, providing access to patents and scholarly work worldwide. With a focus on user privacy, The Lens offers a range of products and services to enhance the search and analysis of patents and scholarly records. Their patent search capabilities include advanced boolean functions, structured search, biological search, classification search, and filtering and sorting options, allowing users to find the most relevant and important patents.

Users can also create collections, set alerts, and visualize the data for annotation and sharing. In addition, The Lens serves over 200 million scholarly records, compiled and harmonized from various reputable sources. These records are enhanced with open access information and links to ORCID, providing a comprehensive scholarly citation graph as an open public resource for the first time.

The brand also offers API and bulk data access, allowing users to access the full corpus of scholarly works, biological sequences, and patents. Users can either perform API search operations or download bulk sequence listings for their convenience. Moreover, The Lens provides tools such as PatSeq, allowing users to search and analyze biological sequences found in patents, and PatCite, which helps discover experts and collaborators by analyzing linkages between academic research and inventions.

Users can also explore Lens Profiles, composite author/inventor profiles based on ORCID records, and Lens Reports, a facility for creating evidence-based reports linked to real Lens data and analytics. The Lens goes beyond traditional search and analysis by offering In4M, an influence mapping tool that uses citation-based metrics to map the influence of scholarly work on academia and enterprise. With continuous improvements and updates, The Lens strives to bridge cultures and provide a comprehensive solution for global science and technology knowledge