Technology Hotbed · Health & Life Sciences
Drug Delivery
Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
299
Patents
37
Startups matched
145
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on drug delivery
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
Ashish Kumar
Amritsar · Health & Life Sciences
INM TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Bengaluru Urban · Materials & Nanotech
LIFEACTIVUS PRIVATE LIMITED
Medchal Malkajgiri · Health & Life Sciences
MLR PHARMA LLP
Guntur · Health & Life Sciences
NADENDLA HEALTH CARE PRIVATE LIMITED
Guntur · Health & Life Sciences
AKYLO HEALTHCARE PRIVATE LIMITED
Faridabad · Health & Life Sciences
AODH LIFESCIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED
Hyderabad · Health & Life Sciences
Apramitha Innovations Private Limited
Hyderabad · Health & Life Sciences
ARNA IMMUNO INGREDIENTS PRIVATE LIMITED
Mumbai · Health & Life Sciences
Axxelent Pharma Science Private Limited
Chennai · Health & Life Sciences
CELAGENEX RESEARCH (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED
Thane · Health & Life Sciences
CUREXEL TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Bengaluru Urban · Health & Life Sciences
A sample of matched deep-tech startups - Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Deep-tech basis: site-backed (own website fetched and read), IP-backed (patent or design filed in its own name), web-backed (described elsewhere on the open web), registry only (registry description alone). How this is decided
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 2 |
| Gujarat | 2 |
| Haryana | 2 |
| Delhi | 1 |
| Maharashtra | 1 |
| Odisha | 1 |
| Tamil Nadu | 1 |
| Assam | 1 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 |
| Bihar | 1 |
| Chandigarh | 1 |
See drug delivery on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.
Filing momentum
Filings by year - recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 32 | 13 |
| 2023 | 66 | 32 |
| 2024 | 75 | 38 |
| 2025 | 79 | 45 |
| 2026partial | 37 | 27 |
Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years - read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
- DR NAMITA D DESAIIN · 2
- AMOL DILIP GHOLAPIN · 2
- CHAUHAN VISHAKHAIN · 2
- DR HARIKUMAR PALLATHADKAIN · 2
- DR JAMEEL AHMED S MULLAIN · 2
- DR KAVITA KHATANAIN · 2
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE3 of 3 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD2 of 2 granted
- INSTITUTE FOR STEM CELL SCIENCE AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE2 of 2 granted
- B K MODY GOVERNMENT PHARMACY COLLEGE1 of 1 granted
- BHARATI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY POONA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY1 of 1 granted
- CHETTINAD ACADEMY OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION1 of 1 granted
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.