MUMBAI, India, April 4 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202341065591 A) filed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka, on Sept. 29, 2023, for 'detachable toe-in foot step door.'

Inventor(s) include Solai SS; and H Umapathi.

The application for the patent was published on April 4, under issue no. 14/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The utility model discloses a detachable Toe-in Foot Step Door(8).The Toe-in Foot step has a backplate which has a door(8) hinged(?) with double lugged anchor nuts(6) and single lugged anchor nuts(5) along its top edge. The door is spring(11) loaded to the closed position.Through the arrangement of anchor nuts(5)(6), t...