MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641049159 A) filed by Sona College Of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu, on April 17, for 'an iot-enabled system and method for real-time microbial quality assessment of milk.'

Inventor(s) include Hema Kumar M; Thiyaneswaran B; Anguraj K; Srinivasan P; Sowmiya D; and Kaviya M.

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 present invention relates to a system and method for real-time assessment of microbial quality of raw milk. The system comprises a sample holding unit configured to contain a raw milk sample admixed with a colorimetric reagent...