NNSA Laboratory Patents & Patent Forward Citations

Compilation of patenting data from the USPTO database (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2025). Patent data were collected for the three NNSA national laboratories - Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - using patent file dates on or after April 11, 2005 (LANL), January 12, 2005 (SNL), and June 16, 2006 (LLNL), and patent issue dates on or by March 9, 2021.