Figure 12.

Alliance-related patents. The Alliance program has funded many projects and platform technologies which have ultimately been commercialized and patented by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The graph displays the total number of patents awarded to companies that were either direct spin off companies of Alliance research projects or companies that obtained the intellectual property to their technologies. The company listed do not represent the entire portfolio of companies that came from Alliance investigators and is only a representative sample that covers the most directly related. Patent data was collected using the advanced search feature of Google Patents, where the name of the company was used as the assignee and a filter for US patents only was applied. Of note, not all of the patents listed in the figure came directly from projects funded by the Alliance, as the companies have extensive portfolios and have matured. Yet these companies, and their respective patents relative to Alliance-related companies, are more directly applicable to the original research performed by Alliance investigators who either licensed to existing companies or began the companies themselves.