MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611026802 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology, New Delhi, on March 7, for 'acoustic metamaterial barrier.'

Inventor(s) include Gupta, Arpan; and Pargal, Ananya.

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 subject matter of the present invention discloses an acoustic metamaterial barrier(100), comprises of a base plate (120)configured to form a base structure of the acoustic metamaterial barrier (100); and plurality of unit cells (110) configured of a flower shaped structure embedded on an upper surface (122) of the base plate (120)...