EPFL has chalked up 100 inventions per year over the past decade

1500e inevtion: the final step in a microscope capable of providing three-dimensional high-resolution images of functioning cells in the human body. Alain Herzog 24. EPFL's Technology Transfer Office evaluated twice as many inventions between 2005 and 2014 than it did during the prior decade. And this year, EPFL has recorded its 1,500th invention. The number of inventions evaluated by EPFL's Technology Transfer Office (TTO) has shot up in recent years. 950 inventions were submitted between 2005 and 2014 versus 450 between 1995 and 2004. The number of patent filings has increased in similar proportions, rising from 256 between 1995 and 2004 to 539 between 2005 and 2014.