MUMBAI, India, July 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521049255 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, on May 22, for 'a polymeric coating and a method of synthesis thereof.'

Inventor(s) include Sanjib Banerjee; Sudipta Paul; Amul Jain; and Ankit Kumar Kaushik.

The application for the patent was published on July 11, under issue no. 28/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides a novel polymeric coating in form of a di-block copolymer comprising a non-ionic monomer and a hydrophobic segment. The di-block copolymer is light stimuli responsive, multi-arm fluorinated polymer, poly(N,N dimethylacrylamide)-block-...