Technology Hotbed · Health & Life Sciences
drug delivery devices
Momentum: — Steady
Across fully-published filing years — the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
212
Patents
1
Startups matched
103
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records — see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on drug delivery devices
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
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 |
|---|---|
| Telangana | 1 |
Filing momentum
Filings by year — recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 46 | 39 |
| 2023 | 45 | 38 |
| 2024 | 58 | 46 |
| 2025 | 39 | 29 |
| 2026partial | 22 | 17 |
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 Nitin Gulab SutarIN · 2
- Mrs Sutar Umeshwari NitinIN · 2
- NEMERA SZCZECIN SPÓLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIAIN · 2
- PENTAMASTER MEDIQ SDN BHDIN · 2
- TRIPENSO AGIN · 2
- BIOCON BIOLOGICS LIMITEDIN · 1
Educational institutes (6) — ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- School of Pharmacy Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University1 of 1 granted
- AMAL JYOTHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING0 of 1 granted
- Chandigarh University0 of 1 granted
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay0 of 1 granted
- LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY0 of 1 granted
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education0 of 1 granted
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.