MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202431068398 A) filed by Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on Sept. 10, 2024, for 'a method for reducing fluoride in industrial water-cooling systems.'

Inventor(s) include Mriganka Das; Pratik Swarup Dash; Md. Naushad Alam; Gaurav Kumar; Anant Kumar Srivastava; and Smruti Ranjan Parida.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a method for reducing the fluoride content of water. The method employs acidified alumina hydrate for reducing the fluoride content, polyacrylamide for flocculation, and li...