Technology Hotbed · Health & Life Sciences
drug delivery
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years — the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
299
Patents
71
Startups matched
144
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
CHITKARA INNOVATION INCUBATOR FOUNDATION
Chandigarh · Health & Life Sciences
ashish kumar
Ranchi · Health & Life Sciences
Ashish Kumar
Amritsar · Health & Life Sciences
ASHOK KUMAR
Kurukshetra · Health & Life Sciences
MLR PHARMA LLP
Guntur · Health & Life Sciences
NADENDLA HEALTH CARE PRIVATE LIMITED
Guntur · Health & Life Sciences
Prashant Gupta
Ghaziabad · Health & Life Sciences
Sanjay Kumar
Ranchi · Energy
ZENVISION PHARMA LLP
Mumbai · Health & Life Sciences
AKYLO HEALTHCARE PRIVATE LIMITED
Faridabad · Health & Life Sciences
Amit Kumar
Dhanbad · Health & Life Sciences
Amit Kumar
New Delhi · Health & Life Sciences
A sample of matched deep-tech startups — Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records — see methodology. Methodology
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 |
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.