Table 1.

Selected patent applications describing the use of microneedles in the GI tract.

US. Application Number	Filing Date	Title	Assignee
US13063236	September 14, 2009	Painless injector	Medimop Medical Projects Ltd.
US12978233	December 23, 2010	Swallowable drug delivery device and methods of drug delivery	Rani Therapeutics, LLC
US13728300	December 27, 2012	Microneedle devices and uses thereof	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, General Hospital Corp.
US14620827	February 12, 2015	Therapeutic agent preparations for delivery into a lumen of the intestinal tract using a swallowable drug delivery device	Rani Therapeutics, LLC