MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042509 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on April 2, for 'disposable multi-well fungal slide culture device.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Vimal Kumar Karnaker; Dr. Asem Ali Ashraf; Dr. Athira Raveendran; and Suhana Nair.

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: "Disclosed herein is a disposable multi-well fungal slide culture device (100) comprises a base unit (102) in a predefined dimensions configured to provide structural support to the device (100), a plurality of culture cavities (104) in a predefined dimensions configured ...