MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042683 A) filed by Environmental And Geo Spatial Solutions, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 2, for 'recovering critical minerals from fly ash to reduce india's strategic import dependency.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. M. Suresh Gandhi; Ms. Padma Polavarapu; Mr. Harikumar Polavarapu; Mr. A. Sivakumar; Soumi De; and Dr. Swapnila Roy.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses an AI-enabled system for recovering critical minerals from fly ash, designed to transform industrial waste into a strategic resource an...