Patent analysis is the process of analyzing patent documents and other information from the patent lifecycle (patent information). The field of patent analytics uses patent analysis to obtain deeper insights into different technologies and innovation. Other terms are sometimes used as synonyms for patent analytics: patent landscaping, patent mapping, or cartography. However, there is no harmonized terminology in different languages, including in French and Spanish, while in some languages such as Russian terms are borrowed from other languages (e.g. the German term “Patentlandschaften” in Russian). Patent analytics encompasses the analysis of patent data, analysis of the scientific literature, data cleaning, text mining, machine learning, geographic mapping, and data visualisation.