openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Album Patents API description: 'One of the most popular NASA websites, exposed as a JSON API. Returns the Astronomy Picture of the Day with title, explanation, image URL, HD URL, optional copyright, and media type. Supports single date, date ranges, random counts, and video thumbnails. ' version: '1.0' contact: name: NASA Open APIs url: https://api.nasa.gov/ license: name: US Government Work (Public Domain) url: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html servers: - url: https://api.nasa.gov description: NASA Open API gateway via api.data.gov security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Patents paths: /patent: get: summary: Search NASA Patents operationId: searchPatents tags: - Patents parameters: - name: patent in: query description: Search term to match against patent metadata. schema: type: string - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey' responses: '200': description: Matching patent records. /patent/issued: get: summary: Search Issued NASA Patents operationId: searchIssuedPatents tags: - Patents parameters: - name: patent_issued in: query schema: type: string - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey' responses: '200': description: Matching issued patent records. components: parameters: ApiKey: name: api_key in: query required: true schema: type: string default: DEMO_KEY securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: query name: api_key