MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517014004 A) filed by Ecolab USA Inc., St. Paul, U.S.A., on Feb. 18, for 'compositions and methods for papermaking.'

Inventor(s) include Wei, Mingli; Huang, Heqing; Jordan, David Steven; and Cheng, Weiguo.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Compositions and colloidal particles are provided that may be used to improve a papermaking process. The compositions and colloidal particles may include a polymer and an inorganic salt. A papermaking process carried out using the presently disclosed compositions and colloidal particles may ...