MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641008789 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 28, for 'a process for isolation of a thermostable microbial protease inhibitor.'

Inventor(s) include Aparana Kumari; Dr. K. V. Bhaskara Rao; Dr. Deepti Parashar; Dr. Kalichamy Alagarasu; and Poonam Patil.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention discloses an optimized and scalable method for isolating a bioactive protease inhibitor from a thermophilic microbial source obtained from a geothermal environment, as schematically illustrated in...