MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511115495 A) filed by Nims University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Nov. 22, 2025, for 'controlled disintegration core for biodegradable hygiene products.'
Inventor(s) include Akshat Pratap Singh; Gayatri Pandey; and Vaibhav Tamrakar.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An eco-friendly, marine-degradable biopolymer assay core (100) for sanitary pads that allows for simultaneous fluid uptake and detection of a biomarker. The biopolymer assay core includes a hydrogel matrix (101) made up from alginate and chitosan and stabilized using a calc...