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He was specifically going to be an academic mathematician, which would probably have allowed him to publish discoveries without patenting or licensing them.



MIT is an R&D corporation which has a college attached. MIT filed 358 US patents and had 435 issued in the year ending June 30, 2021.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/23/1044184/5-mit-pa...




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