Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Chemical-Free Process For Extracting Potato-Haulm Fibre And Blended Yarn Thereof

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611088518 A) filed by K. R. Mangalam University on July 20, 2026, for Chemical-Free Process For Extracting Potato-Haulm Fibre And Blended Yarn Thereof.

Inventors include Jyoti Sehrawat; Indrajeet Kumar; and Sindhu Kumari.

The application for the patent was published on September 11, 2026, under issue no. 37/2026.

Abstract: Disclosed is a chemical-free process for extracting a textile grade fibre from potato haulm, and a blended yarn produced from it. Collected potato haulm is dried and pre-processed, and a binding matrix of the haulm is softened by treatment with an enzyme, in one embodiment a pectinolytic enzyme in an aqueous medium, so as to l...