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ONTEX BV

ONTEX BV's patent strategy is overwhelmingly concentrated in medical devices, with Implants & Prosthetics accounting for a dominant 96.6% of its portfolio, despite a notable decline in filings in this category by -14.3% in 2025 and a further -75.0% so far in 2026. While other categories like Layered Products (Laminates, Films) showed a 100.0% YoY growth in 2024, the company appears to be significantly shifting away from new patenting across almost all categories, with Sterilization & Biocompatible Materials also seeing a -25.0% decline in 2025 and -66.7% so far in 2026, indicating a potential re-evaluation of its innovation focus.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

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87 US filings (since 2023) · 7 categories · 5 themes

Internal Fluid Management Devices

Implantable devices designed to manage or redirect bodily fluids, including stents for ducts, and systems for draining or accumulating fluids within internal cavities.

Implants & Prosthetics
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17since 2023
-75.0%YoY
Advanced Functional Textiles

Development and application of textile materials with engineered properties such as waterproofing, thermal regulation, anti-cling, structural coloration, or enhanced filtration capabilities for specific performance needs.

Layered Products (Laminates, Films)
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5since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Specialized Container Forming & Dispensing

Methods and apparatuses for creating unique package structures, such as recesses in specific materials, blister packages, or single-dose units, and for controlled dispensing of products from storage into these containers.

Packaging Machines
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4since 2023
0.0%YoY
Package Sealing and Integrity

Technologies and methods for securely closing, sealing, and maintaining the integrity of packages, including heat sealing, vacuum sealing, strapping, and specialized closure units, often involving material interaction and atmosphere control.

Packaging Machines
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2since 2023
0.0%YoY
Collapsible & Space-Saving Designs

Household articles engineered with mechanisms for folding, retracting, or collapsing to reduce their footprint, facilitate storage, or enable portability.

Containers & Packaging
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2since 2023
0.0%YoY

Patents

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US 10966875 B2GRANTED
A61F13/15

Apparatus and method for stretching and repitching elastic members

Filed:2017-07-20Pub:2021-04-06
Applicant:ONTEX BVBA

The current invention concerns a method and apparatus for stretching and repitching an elastic member for attachment to a moving substrate, the elastic member being stretchable in at least a longitudinal direction and said elastic member in an essential non-stretched condition comprising an initial length along said longitudinal direction, the method comprising the steps of: (1) providing the elastic member in essentially non-stretched condition to a set of repitching members with an initial supply pitch, said set of repitching members comprising at least a first repitching member and a second repitching member, and optionally one or more repitching members arranged between said first and said second repitching member; (2) receiving said elastic members arranged in non-stretched condition between said set of repitching members, whereby the distance between the first and the second repitching member corresponds to the initial length of the elastic member; (3) moving at least said first and said second repitching members following trajectories diverging from each other, thereby stretching said elastic members arranged between the repitching members to an application length which is longer than the initial length and which corresponds to the length of said elastic member in elastically stretched condition, whereby said repitching members are moved with selectively variable velocity when transferring said elastic members to selectively vary the application pitch of said elastic member in stretched condition on said substrate, the variation of the speed of said repitching members determining the application pitch of said elastic member in stretched condition on said substrate, characterized in that during step (3), said set of elastic members are rotated around a common rotation axis while the elastic member is being stretched from the initial length to the application length. Additionally, the invention concerns a method and apparatus for stretching and repitching an elastic member for attachment to a moving substrate whereby the elastic members are held by repitching members, which are rotated at an essentially constant rotational speed around rotation axes in trajectories, said trajectories being defined by having a different radial distance from the rotation axis to the repitching member rotating around said rotation axis at the application position where the elastic member is attached to the substrate, than at the initial position where the elastic member is received by the repitching members, thereby changing the pitch of the elastic members.

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