MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631025393 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa, on March 3, for 'method for removing microplastics and/or nanoplastics (mps/nps) from an aqueous medium via faujasite-type zeolite y (na-y) compound prepared utilizing industrial waste.'

Inventor(s) include Gopal, Ms. Sreeshma; and Sen, Dr. Sujit.

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: "Embodiments herein disclose a method for removing microplastics and/or nanoplastics (MPs/NPs) from an aqueous medium using faujasite-type zeolite Y (Na-Y) synthesized from aluminos...