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Ranking Institution No. of Patents
1 University of California, The Regents of 589
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 335
3 The University of Texas 589
4 King Abdulaziz University 187
5 Stanford University 181
6 Purdue Research Foundation / Purdue University 169
7 Harvard College, President and Fellows 167
8 Arizona State University 153
9 California Institute of Technology 146
10 Tsinghua University 146
11 Johns Hopkins University 144
12 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation / University of Wisconsin 143
13 University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated 136
14 University of Michigan 132
15 University of Pennsylvania 128
16 University of Minnesota, The Regents of 109
17 Cornell University 105
18 University of Pittsburgh 104
19 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 102
20 University of Maryland 98
21 Case Western Reserve University 97
22 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 93
23 Dalian University of Technology 92
24 University of South Florida 92
25 Northwestern University 91
26 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 91
27 Columbia University 89
28 University of Illinois 87
29 The University of Arizona 86
30 City University of Hong Kong 80
31 Korea University Research and Business Foundation 80
32 Duke University 78
33 University of Chicago, Uchicago Argonne 74
34 University of Washington 74
35 Jiangnan University 71
36 University of Massachusetts 71
37 University of Colorado, The Regents of 70
38 Seoul National University Research & Development Business Foundation (SNU R&DB Foundation) 70
39 Washington University 65
40 Yale University 65
41 Technion Research and Development Foundation, Ltd 63
42 Research Foundation for the State University of New York 63
43 Florida International University 62
44 Georgia Tech Research Corporation 61
45 Vanderbilt University 60
46 Oxford University Innovation Limited 59
47 National Tsing Hua University 56
48 Ecole Polytechnique, Fédérale De Lausanne 55
49 Osaka University 55
50 University of North Carolina 52
51 Ohio State Innovation Foundation, Ohio State University 51
52 New York University 49
53 Princeton University 49
54 Huazhong University of Science & Technology 48
55 Sungkyunkwan University Research & Business Foundation 48
56 China University of Mining and Technology 48
57 University of South Carolina 47
58 Florida State University 46
59 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal university 45
60 University of Utah Research Foundation 45
61 Emory University 44
62 Rutgers University 44
63 South China University of Technology 44
64 University of Central Florida 44
65 Nutech Ventures / University of Nebraska, the Board of Regents 43
66 Southwest Petroleum University 43
67 University of Virginia Alumni Patents Foundation / University of Virginia 42
68 Zhejiang University 44
69 King Saud University 40
70 Northeastern University 40
71 Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd 40
72 Texas A&M University 40
73 University of Southern California 40
74 Jiangsu University 39
75 Kyoto University 39
76 Penn State Research Foundation, Inc. / The Pennsylvania State University 39
77 National Chiao Tung University 39
78 Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation/Indiana University 39
79 Carnegie-Mellon University 38
80 Southeast University (China) 38
81 The University of Alabama 38
82 Nanyang Technological University 37
83 North Carolina State University 36
84 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Yonsei University 36
85 Michigan State University 35
86 University of Missouri 35
87 Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc 34
88 National University of Singapore 34
89 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 34
90 Tufts University/Tufts Medical Center 34
91 Tohoku University 33
92 United Arab Emirates University 33
93 University of Arkansas 33
94 University of Electronic Science And Technology of China 32
95 University of Rochester 32
96 Louisiana State University 32
97 National Cheng Kung University 31
98 The University of Akron 31
99 Baylor University 30
100 Ajou University Industry- Academic Cooperation Foundation 29
101 Governing Council of the University of Toronto 29
102 Shenzhen University 29
103 The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 29
104 The University of Tokyo 29

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