NU in top 100 of U.S. patents
The University of Nebraska system was named among the world’s top 100 institutions in earning U.S. patents. A report from the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association ranked NU 70th in the number of U.S. patents earned in 2017. The NU system earned 37 patents in 2017, with Husker inventors holding 27 of them. Intellectual property is licensed and commercialized through NUtech Ventures, which serves the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and UNeMed, which serves the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.