MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631045177 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on April 8, for 'a heat exchanger tube fitted with a plain twisted tape insert for heat transfer enhancement.'

Inventor(s) include Kumari, Anuradha; and Kumar, Dr. Parmanand.

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: "A heat exchanger tube assembly and method are disclosed for enhancing convective heat transfer in internal tube flow. The assembly includes a circular tube defining an internal flow passage and a plain twisted tape insert positioned within the ...