According to the Qinghai Intellectual Property Office Statistics Analysis Report, the Top 100 of 2016 Qinghai province patent applications and patent licensing came out, Qinghai University and ISL earned the No 1 on patent applications and patent licensing, respectively.

The data showed that Qinghai University obtained 95 patent applications in 2016, of which the invention patents accounted for 75.8%, accounting for 58.2% of the province's university patent applications, an increase of 206%. It can be seen as the province of knowledge innovation in the high ground, in the creation of intellectual property highlights the "leader" status.ISL received 65 patent licensing in 2016, of which the invention patents accounted for 95.4%, accounting for 50.8% of the province's university patent applications, an increase of 27.5%. By the end of 2016, ISL is one of the most effective invention patent ownership units in our province and the patent of the strongest units in our province.