Abstract:Taking the U.S. financial-funded patents as the research object, this paper made a statistical analysis of the funding agencies, patent owners and technology fields, and mainly analyzed the citation features of the financial-funded patents. Compared with the correlation between non-financial funded patents and scientific papers, the study found that financial-funded patents have a higher scientific relevance with scientific papers. Therefore, we should establish and improve the information disclosure system for financial-funded patents, and promote patent output in basic research, especially in application-oriented basic research.