MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611002001 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Jan. 8, for 'controlled-release volatile pest deterrent system.'

Inventor(s) include Neha; Harshal Vasantrao Wadatkar; and Ankush M Raut.

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 present invention discloses a controlled-release volatile pest deterrent system (100) designed to provide sustainable, eco-friendly, and long-lasting pest management using Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK)-based botanical volatiles (102). The system (100) comprises micro-encapsul...