MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202431078206 A) filed by Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on Oct. 15, 2024, for 'a scrap feeding unit for a metallurgical melting vessel.'

Inventor(s) include Abhishek Kumar Jyoti; Dipankar Indra; Sampath Kumar Seshadri; and Rupesh Kumar Singh.

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: "Present disclosure discloses a scrap feeding unit (100) for a metallurgical melting vessel (200). The scrap feeding unit (100) includes a frame (2) and a first conveyor (4) disposed on the frame (2) and structured to receive scrap from a source. ...