The UT Research Foundation (UTRF) moves ideas and discoveries by faculty, staff and students from the laboratories and classrooms to the marketplace. It helps protect and commercialize this intellectual property while encouraging entrepreneurship on all of UT’s campuses.
“The measure of technology transfer is the number of lives impacted.” – Maha Krishnamurthy, UTRF President
In Fiscal Year 2022
- Patents Filed 101
- Patents Issued 33
- Disclosures Submitted 185
- Licenses and Agreements 41
- Active Technology 299
- Active Startup Companies 45
- Licensing Revenue $1.5 million
Since Fiscal Year 2012
Total Five-Year Impact $710 million
- Patents Filed 517
- Patents Issued 158
- Wholly Owned Subsidiaries’ Impact to UT $139 million
- Paid to UT Inventors $3.7 million
- Paid to UT Colleges and Departments $1.3 million