Technology Hotbed · Health & Life Sciences
Drug Delivery Systems
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.
640
Patents
8
Startups matched
145
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on drug delivery systems
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
Dinesh
Aurangabad · Agri & Food
ENTREGA
Ranchi · Health & Life Sciences
GPLIFE HEALTHCARE PRIVATE LIMITED
Surat · Health & Life Sciences
MLR PHARMA LLP
Guntur · Health & Life Sciences
NEELAM
Hisar · Health & Life Sciences
Quisitive Therapeutics
Medchal Malkajgiri · Health & Life Sciences
SUMAR BIOTECH LLP
Ahmedabad · Health & Life Sciences
UNICAS BIOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED
Ranga Reddy · 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 |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 16 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11 |
| Haryana | 10 |
| Jharkhand | 5 |
| Bihar | 5 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4 |
| Gujarat | 4 |
| Maharashtra | 4 |
| Rajasthan | 4 |
| Telangana | 3 |
| Tamil Nadu | 3 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2 |
See drug delivery systems 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 | 100 | 34 |
| 2023 | 153 | 43 |
| 2024 | 166 | 48 |
| 2025 | 145 | 26 |
| 2026partial | 68 | 15 |
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 SUSHIL KUMARIN · 5
- DR NAVNEET VERMAIN · 4
- KANTAMNENI PADMA LATHAIN · 4
- DR SONAL SOLANKIIN · 3
- DR SUKIRTI UPADHYAYIN · 3
- DR VIJAY SHARMAIN · 3
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.