A61J 3/074
Filling capsules
Official title: {Filling capsules; Related operations}
A61J3/074 (Filling capsules) appears on 294 US grants and 290 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61J- Granted patents
- 294
- Published applications
- 290
- Assignees
- 142
- Inventors
- 461
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 18 | 17 |
| 2025 | 18 | 12 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Device for dosing solid particulate material22 Sep 2026US 12,740,920 B2Lonza Sales AG
- Capsule device with an aperture formed by an overlap of two halve-capsule shells4 Aug 2026US 12,697,284 B2EsoCap AG
- Capsule filling apparatus2 Jun 2026US 12,642,747 B2Qualicaps Co., Ltd.
- Drug imaging device and drug packaging device24 Mar 2026US 12,582,577 B2Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Dual release dosage form capsule and methods, devices and systems for making same3 Mar 2026US 12,564,557 B2Gel Cap Technologies, 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
- Method and apparatus for an air-expelling, bubble-free capsule28 May 2026US 2026/0145839 A1Vita-Herb Nutriceuticals, Inc.
- Drug imaging device and drug packaging device21 May 2026US 2026/0137593 A1Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Capsule inhaler for the administration of a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083711 A1Chiesi Farmaceutici S.P. A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Compounder apparatus168US 9,364,394 B2DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2016
- Compounder apparatus101US 9,687,417 B2DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2017
- Compounder apparatus68US 10,471,402 B2DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2019
- Multi-phase, multi-compartment capsular delivery apparatus and methods for using same68US 7,670,612 B2INNERCAP Technologies, Inc. · 2010
- Automatic caplet filler53US 5,081,822 AWarner-Lambert Company · 1992