MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617001701 A) filed by Wan, Xingtian, Anhui, China, on Jan. 7, for 'handheld electric tea shears.'

Inventor(s) include Wan, Xingtian.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Handheld electric tea shears, comprising a support (1), a shearing part (2), a shearing power system (3), a tea collecting system (4) and a control system (5), wherein the control system (5) controls the shearing power system (3) to drive the shearing part (2) and the tea collecting system (4) to operate. Tea buds on a tea tree are independently and separately pl...