MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641049390 A) filed by J. J. College Of Engineering And Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, on April 17, for 'face mask for sleeping.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. P. Mathiyalagan; S. Sureshkumar; J. S. Jaslin; and Elphej Churchil S J.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A foam layer that is designed to suit the head and cover the eye area makes up a sleep mask. Two distinct elongated foam thickenings are placed on the bottom inner edge of the mask, next to the nose and parallel to the mask edge, leaving a central gap for the nose in o...