MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611088555 A) filed by K. R. Mangalam University on July 21, 2026, for Fiber-Reinforced Brick From Shredded Textile Waste And Apparatus For Producing The Same.

Inventors include Dr. Monika Yadav; Nitish Kumar Minz; and Prof. Dr. Hima Gupta.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: A cloth brick (200) comprises, by weight, 50-70% of shredded textile fibres (202) of 5-20 mm entangled into a continuous three-dimensional network, 20-40% of a set binder matrix (204) coating the fibres (202) and bonding them at their crossings, and 0-5% of additives. The set binder matrix (204) is sufficient...