MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611002264 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, on Jan. 8, for 'method for detection of microplastics released from waste plastic modified asphalt mixtures.'
Inventor(s) include Deb, Soumyadeep; Kumar, Praveen; and Saboo, Nikhil.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a first-of-its-kind integrated testing framework for evaluating microplastic generation from RWP-modified asphalt mixtures in both loose and compacted states. The combination of realistic simulation, solvent-...