MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621030059 A) filed by Sage University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on March 12, for 'portable handheld apparatus and method for agricultural pest risk assessment.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Prashant Jain; Dr. Mukesh Kumar Yadav; Shraddha Tripathi; and Satish Sharma.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A portable handheld apparatus for agricultural pest risk assessment comprises a sensor probe assembly with an extendable structure having retracted and extended positions, wherein a temperature sensor is positioned at a distal end of the exten...