Unleashing bioprinting technology through patent intelligence

Bioprinting technology is here to revolutionize the healthcare sector by providing customized solutions to the medicine industry. A review of the bioprinting patent documents provides insight into the development of this technology. A patent search was conducted using open-access patent databases and the raw data were refined by manually checking and eliminating irrelevant patents followed by hand-coding with master keywords. Graphics created from the data set facilitate the generation of patent intelligence on current bioprinting technologies in terms of prominent patent-filing countries and institutions, territorial biases in the areas of technology, and applications in the drug discovery process.