MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641044096 A) filed by Saveetha Institute Of Medical And Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 7, for 'early biofilm detection strip.'
Inventor(s) include Najinaseef Pathoor; Pitchaipillai Sankar Panesh; and Dr. Deepak Nallaswamy Veeraiyan.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses an early biofilm detection strip for rapid and instrument-free identification of biofilm-forming microorganisms. The strip is designed to detect biofilm initiation by selectively capturing early biofilm-associated comp...