Coming from #7, @rahul-gj created a fork of this library called uspto-peds-python, which just wraps the PEDS Search API and is purely based on the requests and BeautifulSoup packages.
This variant is obviously able to operate with a trimmed down subset of dependencies making it apparently more usable for specific use cases. However, the same thing could be achieved using extras_require() mechanisms.
This issue has been created to track the reintegration of both variants with each other again.
Thanks for your valuable input on that, Rahul.