Located in Palo Alto, California, Stanford filed 636 patents between 2010 and 2015. 39.9% of those were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include Tesla founder Elon Musk and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge filed 1,368 patents between 2010 and 2015. 43.3% were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include Charles Koch, the co-owner of Koch Industries, and former CEO of CIT Group John Thain.
Harvard, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, filed 881 patents between 2010 and 2015. 26.1% were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer and CEO of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein.
The Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania filed 517 patents filed between 2010 and 2015, and 32.9% were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include President Donald Trump and American businessman and philanthropist Ron Perelman.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is located in Leuven, Belgium. The university filed 292 patents between 2010 and 2015, with 37% subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include Nestle CEO Paul Bulcke.
KAIST is located in Daejeon, South Korea. It filed 923 patents between 2010 and 2015, and 82.1% were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon and Jungju Kimm, who co-founded Korea's largest gaming company, Nexon.
Located in Seattle, Washington, the school filed 494 patents between 2010 and 2015, of which 31.8% were granted.
Notable alumni include former NASA astronaut Bonnie Dunbar and former Washington Gov. Daniel Evans.
The system encompasses three locations throughout Michigan, and filed 580 patents in total between 2010 and 2015. 43.8% were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Charlie Munger and Alphabet CEO Larry Page.
The UT system includes 14 schools throughout Texas. In total, the universities filed 974 patents between 2010 and 2015, with 32.3% of those subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include Dell CEO Michael Dell and the CEO of National Instruments, James Truchard.
Vanderbilt, located in Nashville, Tennessee, filed 218 patents filed between 2010 and 2015, 43.1% of which were granted.
Notable alumni include Philanthropist Muhammad Yunus and author and philanthropist James Patterson.
Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke filed 331 patents between 2010 and 2015. 29.6% were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include Apple CEO Tim Cook and Gates Foundation Cochair Melinda Gates.
The UC system encompasses nine schools around California, including UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Across the system, 2,382 patents were filed between 2010 and 2015. 33.7% of those were subsequently granted.
Notable alumni include YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
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