MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541133602 A) filed by Raincatchers, Hasaan, Karnataka, on Dec. 30, 2025, for 'waste collecting apparatus with segmented concrete ring.'

Inventor(s) include Manoj Samuel Baptist.

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 provides a waste collecting apparatus (12) having an outer segmented concrete ring (20) with interconnecting blocks (22). Each block has a curved portion (24), extension section (26), and groove (28). Extension sections insert into adjacent grooves forming a circular ring structure defining a hollow ...