MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517044988 A) filed by Vesuvius Group S. A., Ghlin, Belgium, on May 9, for 'gas purge plug and system for easy installation of the gas purge plug in a metallurgical vessel.'

Inventor(s) include Mckinney Matthew; Walker John; and Insana Jeffrey.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention concerns a system for easy installation of a gas purge plug (1) in an opening (15) in a wall (11w) of a metallurgical vessel (11). The system comprises ?? a gas purge plug equipped with a plug coupling element (1 c) ?? an insertion ro...