A61J 3/07
Into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use
Official title: into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use
A61J3/07 (Into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use) appears on 767 US grants and 805 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61J- Granted patents
- 767
- Published applications
- 805
- Assignees
- 400
- Inventors
- 1,488
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2003 | 13 | 18 |
| 2004 | 10 | 26 |
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| 2006 | 11 | 16 |
| 2007 | 10 | 31 |
| 2008 | 8 | 34 |
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| 2020 | 29 | 45 |
| 2021 | 22 | 33 |
| 2022 | 25 | 46 |
| 2023 | 22 | 45 |
| 2024 | 34 | 43 |
| 2025 | 36 | 31 |
| 2026 | 23 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- High barrier powder capsule29 Sep 2026US 12,746,351 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Device for dosing solid particulate material22 Sep 2026US 12,740,920 B2Lonza Sales AG
- Image analysis server, object counting method using image analysis server, and object counting system18 Aug 2026US 12,711,649 B2Medility LLC
- Smart drug selection and dispensing system and method4 Aug 2026US 12,697,283 B2Rightis, Inc.
- Capsule device with an aperture formed by an overlap of two halve-capsule shells4 Aug 2026US 12,697,284 B2EsoCap AG
- Additive manufacturing process for producing chemical delivery devices using screening8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307336 A1Genesee Valley Innovations, LLC
- Pharmaceutical dosage form for application to mucous membranes and methods for producing same20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240783 A1EsoCap AG
- An apparatus, kit and method for mixing, filtering, and dosing of a biological material30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216003 A11Health Gut Inn Balance Aps
- Dosing device and information acquisition system for dosing device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199651 A1Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Fluid-absorptive gastroretentive dosage form for prolonged drug delivery2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183230 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ingestible device443US 6,632,216 B2Phaeton Research Ltd. · 2003
- Method for the manufacture of pharmaceutical cellulose capsules328US 5,698,155 AGS Technologies, Inc. · 1997
- Polymer composition for injection molding202US 4,673,438 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1987
- Oral drug compliance monitoring using radio frequency identification tags172US 7,382,263 B2Dow Global Technologies LLC · 2008
- Compounder apparatus168US 9,364,394 B2DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2016