MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641048457 A) filed by Shreepad Hegde, Hyderabad, Telangana, on April 16, for 'a glove port monitoring, interlock, and event-logging system for containment devices.'

Inventor(s) include Shreepad Hegde.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a glove port monitoring and interlock system (100) for a containment device. The system (100) comprises a plurality of glove port guard units (102a, 102b,...102n) mounted on one or more glove ports (104a, 104b,...104n) of a containment device, a centralized controller (...