MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641019055 A) filed by Sri Krishna College Of Engineering And Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on Feb. 19, for 'sustainable conversion of sugarcane leaves into bio-based plastics and composite materials.'

Inventor(s) include C Rajendran.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a sustainable process for converting sugarcane leaves (100), an underutilized agricultural residue, into biodegradable plastics and composite materials (112). The process involves pretreatment and delignification (102) of sugar...