2016

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Ranking Institution No. of Patents
1 University of California, The Regents of 526
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 304
3 Stanford University 226
4 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 209
5 The University of Texas 187
6 California Institute of Technology 163
7 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 157
8 Harvard College, President and Fellows 137
9 Johns Hopkins University 132
10 Arizona State University / Arizona Board of Regents 130
11 University of Michigan 130
12 Purdue Research Foundation 126
13 Tsinghua University 126
14 University of Pennsylvania 107
15 Columbia University 104
16 University of South Florida 96
17 Case Western Reserve University 95
18 Northwestern University 93
19 University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated 90
20 Duke University 89
21 University of Minnesota, The Regents of 89
22 University of Illinois 88
23 Cornell University 85
24 National Tsing Hua University 84
25 King Saud University 81
26 University of Chicago / Uchicago Argonne Llc 77
27 University of Pittsburgh 75
28 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 72
29 University of Maryland 72
30 Research Foundation of State University of New York 71
31 New York University 69
32 University of North Carolina 67
33 Florida International University 65
34 University of Washington 65
35 Sungkyunkwan University Research & Business Foundation 64
36 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Yonsei University 60
37 Rutgers University 58
38 University of Massachusetts 58
39 The University of Utah Research Foundation / The University of Utah 58
40 Yale University 58
41 Carnegie Mellon University 56
42 University of Virginia Alumni Patent Foundation 55
43 Ohio State Innovation Foundation / The Ohio State University 53
44 Seoul National University Research & Development Business Foundation (SNU R&DB Foundation) 53
45 Vanderbilt University 53
46 Korea University Research and Business Foundation 52
47 Emory University 50
48 Georgia Tech Research Corp. 50
49 Nanyang Technological University 49
50 National Chiao Tung University 47
51 Drexel University 44
52 Science & Technology Corporation at The University of New Mexico 44
53 The University of Akron 43
54 University of Colorado, The Regents of 43
55 University of Southern California 43
56 Washington University 43
57 Princeton University 42
58 Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology 40
59 Penn State Research Foundation, Inc. 40
60 Ecole Polytechnique, Fédérale De Lausanne . 39
61 National Taiwan University 39
62 University of Missouri 39
63 City University of Hong Kong 38
64 Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation 38
65 The University of Tokyo 38
66 Ramot At Tel Aviv University Ltd. 37
67 The University of Arizona 37
68 Macau University of Science and Technology 36
69 Florida State University 34
70 Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. 34
71 Wake Forest University / Wake Forest University Health Science 34
72 Kyoto University 33
73 Michigan State University 33
74 University of South Carolina 33
75 China University of Mining and Technology 32
76 National University of Singapore 32
77 Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. 32
78 University of Central Florida 32
79 National Cheng Kung University 31
80 The University of Jowa Research Foundation 31
81 University of Nebraska, The Board of Regents of / Nutech Ventures 31
82 Brigham Young University 30
83 Tufts University / Tufts Medical Center, Inc. 30
84 University of Rochester 30
85 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 29
86 Oxford University Innovation Limited 29
87 The University of British Columbia 29
88 Foundation of Soongsil University- Industry Cooperation 28
89 Jiangnan University 28
90 Texas A&M University 28
91 University of Houston System 28
92 Northeastern University 27
93 Osaka University 26
94 Research Foundation, City University of New York 26
95 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 26
96 University of Alabama 26
97 University of Connecticut 26
98 Dartmouth College 25
99 The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 25
100 University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. 25