MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631044472 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Patna, Bihar, on April 7, for 'a fired clay brick with corn cob particle and void pore structure.'

Inventor(s) include Stuti; and Das, Bijay Kumar.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a fired clay brick (100) including a clay matrix (102) and a corn cob particle (104) distributed through the clay matrix (102) as a pore-forming constituent prior to firing. Upon firing, the corn cob particle (104) combusts at a temperature in a range of 300 t...