MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611002315 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Jan. 8, for 'antimicrobial self-sterilizing toothbrush cap system.'

Inventor(s) include Kirti; Arpita; and Soni Singh.

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 relates to an antimicrobial toothbrush cap system (100) designed to sterilize and protect toothbrush bristles between uses. The system incorporates a protective housing (102) that encloses the brush head and contains integrated antimicrobial material (104) for passive microbial suppression. ...