MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531128897 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, on Dec. 18, 2025, for 'portable analyzer for determining degree of polish in rice grain.'

Inventor(s) include Ghormare, Nishant; Panda, Dr. Brajesh Kumar; Mishra, Dr. Gayatri; and Mandal, Dr. Ronit.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a portable dual-mode analyzer for determining the degree of polish (DOP) of milled rice. The analyzer includes a housing enclosing a processing unit (104) with memory, a custom cuvette of fix...