2020

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Ranking Institution No. of Patents
1 University of California, The Regents of 597
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 383
3 Stanford University 229
4 University of Texas 207
5 Johns Hopkins University 185
6 Purdue Research Foundation 175
7 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 162
8 California Institute of Technology 156
9 Tsinghua University 155
10 Harvard College, President and Fellows 154
11 Arizona State University 140
12 University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated 140
13 University of Michigan 134
14 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 127
15 University of South Florid 125
16 Northwestern University 122
17 University of Pennsylvania 111
18 University of Minnesota, The Regents of 110
19 Columbia University 107
20 University of Pittsburgh 106
21 Case Western Reserve University 105
22 University of Chicago, Uchicago Argonne LLC 99
23 University of Washington 91
24 University of Maryland 88
25 Cornell University 87
26 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 86
27 University of Massachusetts 84
28 University of Arizona / The Arizona Board of Regents of Behaft of the University of Arizona 81
29 University of Illinois 80
30 Duke University 78
31 Korea University Research and Business Foundation 78
32 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 76
33 King Abdulaziz University 71
34 Research Foundation of State University of New York 70
35 Seoul National University Research & Development Business Foundation (SNU R&DB Foundation) 68
36 Vanderbilt University 68
37 New York University 64
38 National Tsing Hua University 63
39 University of Colorado, The Regents of 63
40 University of North Carolina 63
41 Rutgers University 61
42 Florida International University 60
43 Washington University 59
44 Yale University 59
45 King Saud University 58
46 Jiangnan University 57
47 University of British Columbia 57
48 Georgia Tech Research Corporation 56
49 Sungkyunkwan University Research & Business Foundation 56
50 Princeton University 55
51 City University of Hong Kong 54
52 University of Southern California 54
53 Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation/Indiana University 53
54 The University of Tokyo 53
55 Boston University 49
56 Ohio State Innovation Foundation, Ohio State University 48
57 Emory University 47
58 Michigan State University 47
59 National Chiao Tung University 47
60 Ecole Polytechnique, Fédérale De Lausanne 46
61 Oxford University Innovation Limited 46
62 University of Central Florida 46
63 Technion Research and Development Foundation, Ltd 45
64 University of South Carolina 45
65 Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc 44
66 Northeastern University 44
67 South China University of Technology 44
68 Tohoku University 44
69 University of Virginia Alumni Patents Foundation 42
70 Carnegie-Mellon University 41
71 Texas A&M University 41
72 University of Utah Research Foundation 41
73 Zhejiang University 41
74 Penn State Research Foundation, Inc. 40
75 University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyunghee University 40
76 Ramot At Tel Aviv University Ltd 39
77 Louisiana State University 38
78 University of Nebraska, the Board of Regents of / Nutech Ventures 38
79 Nanyang Technological University 37
80 Osaka University 37
81 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 37
82 University of Houston System 37
83 University of Rochester 36
84 Florida State University 35
85 North Carolina State University 35
86 Unm Rainforest Innovations 34
87 Huazhong University of Science & Technology 34
88 China University of Mining and Technology 33
89 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Yonsei University 33
90 Kyoto University 32
91 Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 32
92 Dartmouth College 31
93 Jiangsu University 31
94 University of Akron 31
95 Soochow University 30
96 University of Electronic Science And Technology of China 30
97 University of Kentucky Research Foundation 29
98 Wayne State University. 29
99 National Cheng Kung University 28
100 National University of Singapore 28
101 Tufts University / Tufts Medical Center, Inc 28