UW-Madison faculty, staff and students received 77 patents through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in 2005, making UW-Madison the nation's fifth-most productive\ intellectual property university, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced April 6.
In 2004, UW-Madison ranked eighth with 64 patents, according to a University Communications statement released Tuesday.
A drug formulated to combat osteoporosis, invented by UW-Madison biochemistry professor Hector DeLuca, won one of the patents. Another invention that enhances the effectiveness, speed and image quality of magnetic resonance imaging scans by UW-Madison medical physics and radiology professor Charles Mistretta accounted for another, according to the statement.
The University of California system ranked first, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was second, the California Institute of Technology came in third and Stanford University and the University of Texas tied for fourth with 90 patents each.
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