Patent Profiling for Nano Enabled Drug Delivery

Nano Enabled Drug Delivery (NEDD) systems are rapidly emerging as a key sub-area of nanotechnology’s application. Drug Delivery Systems (DDS) can improve the administration and efficacy of pharmaceutical compounds including antibodies, peptides, vaccines, drugs and enzymes [1]. As one subset of drug delivery innovation, NEDD, in which the small molecule delivery systems are at the submicron scale, is promising to both (a) enable targeted delivery to organs and tissues, individual cells and organelles and (b) release the drug at a controlled rate [2]. Recently, NEDD is getting more and more attention and being applied widely by combining with more multiple medical materials, such as herbal medicines [3] and RNAi [4]. Understanding the status and developmental prospects of this area around the world is important to determine research priorities, and to evaluate and direct progress. Global patent databases provide a reservoir of information that can be tapped to provide intelligence [5]. Therefore, we do patents profiling for NEDD here for such needs.