MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641020800 A) filed by Saveetha Institute Of Medical And Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Feb. 23, for 'closed loop presure relief pop cast for long bone fracture immobilization.'
Inventor(s) include Nivetha D; Kotteeswaran K; and Deepak Nallaswamy Veeraiyan.
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: "The present invention relates to a closed-loop pressure-relief plaster of Paris (POP) cast designed for immobilization of long-bone fractures while actively preventing complications associated with excessive intra- cast pressure...