The list is based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Georgia Tech ranked No. 25 with 78 patents. Other Georgia universities on the list are: Emory ranked No. 58 with 35 patents and UGA ranked No. 73 with 30 patents.

The top 15 universities:

1. The University of California System
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Tsinghua University (China)
4. Stanford University
5. University of Texas
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
8. Johns Hopkins University
9. Columbia University
10. University of Michigan
11. National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
12. Korea Institute of Science Technology
13. University of South Florida
14. University of Pennsylvania
15. The Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Science