MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517094690 A) filed by Evonik Operations Gmbh, Essen, Germany, on Oct. 1, for 'detection of viral presence in cells.'

Inventor(s) include Roy, Suki; Nagarajan, Sanjanaa; Bohl, Florian; Huang, Lingzhi; Wong, Kit Yeng; and Whelan, Rose.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention is related to a method of identifying integrated viral DNA in the genome of at least one mammalian test cell, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining presence or absence of viral DNA in a DNA sample obtained from the mammalian test ce...