Google Patent - Inconsistent behavior with abstracts

dan_skelov8

Hi everyone. First off, thanks for creating and maintaining such a powerful and useful resource.

I'm working on some patent searches using Google Patents and am encountering an issue with abstracts. I think it may be on my usage end, since I don't see any related issues posted in GitHub. Perhaps someone can point me to a solution?

Whether pulling a single patent in from the patent page view, or pulling in a list of patents from the search results page, the translator does not populate the abstract field. I have even tried with the test cases embedded in the translator code, and I do not get the abstract for many of them, even if the test case shows it. In the case of a search I run .. I don't get the abstract for any of them.

These don't come in with abstract:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7123498
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4390992
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6239091

These DO come in with an abstract:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4748058
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110172136

Thank you for reading this. I'm very happy to help with debugging, testing or providing more details.

Dan