Health Complex Patents

2022 Year To Date

This page was updated on Wednesday, March 16, 2022

As of March 15, 2022, the Health Complex's inventors have included 1,745 individual funding citations on new taxpayer-funded patents since the beginning of 2022.

Department | Agency | Institute Citation Count
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 539
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 515
National Cancer Institute (NCI) 128
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) 88
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) 73
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) 58
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) 52
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) 45
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) 35
National Institute on Aging (NIA) 28
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 23
National Eye Institute (NEI) 18
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) 17
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) 14
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 14
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) 13
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) 12
NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD) 12
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) 11
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) 11
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) 9
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 8
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) 4
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) 3
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) 3
Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS) 2
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 2
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 2
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) 2
U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) 2
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) 1
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) 1
Fogarty International Center (FIC) 0

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What Is The Health Complex?

The Health Complex section of the FedInvent Report presents new patent applications from the Department of Health and Human Services and its parts. Each week the Health Complex has the highest number of published pre-grant taxpayer-funded patent applications.