MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517029942 A) filed by Nv Bekaert Sa, Zwevegem, Belgium, on March 28, for 'an elongated zinc coated steel wire for flexible carding clothing.'

Inventor(s) include Liu, Xiaojiang; Xu, Rong; and Shen, Li.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention provides an elongated steel wire, the elongated steel wire comprises a steel filament and a zinc coating covering the steel filament, the elongated steel wire having a tensile strength of more than 2200MPa, and the elongated steel wire has a bending performance of at least 25 bendi...