Technology Hotbed · Health & Life Sciences
Drug Delivery Devices
Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: - Steady
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
242
Patents
1
Startups matched
111
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
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 |
|---|---|
| Telangana | 1 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 |
See drug delivery devices 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 | 46 | 39 |
| 2023 | 45 | 38 |
| 2024 | 58 | 46 |
| 2025 | 41 | 29 |
| 2026partial | 24 | 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
- NEMERA SZCZECIN SP LKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIAIN · 3
- DR NITIN GULAB SUTARIN · 2
- MRS SUTAR UMESHWARI NITININ · 2
- PENTAMASTER MEDIQIN · 2
- TRIPENSOIN · 2
- BIOCON BIOLOGICSIN · 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.