MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631009742 A) filed by Kalinga Institute Of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, on Jan. 30, for 'smart stethoscope with detachable magnetic docking ecg electrodes.'

Inventor(s) include Mohanty, Nibedita; Pramanik, Soumili; and Chakraborty, Megha.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 6, under issue no. 06/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a smart stethoscope apparatus that includes a chest piece configured to capture acoustic heart sounds from a patient, the chest piece having an acoustic sensor. The apparatus includes a plurality of detachable ECG el...