MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517057998 A) filed by Rieter Ag, Winterthur, Switzerland, on June 17, for 'device and method for determining a cause of a malfunction in a plurality of textile machines.'

Inventor(s) include Patil, Nitin Tukaram.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This disclosure relates to an electronic device (10) for determining a cause (c) of a malfunction (m) in a plurality of textile machines (12, 23, 34, 45, 56, 67) which are configured for processing an input textile material (1) from upstream textile machines (12, 23, 34, 45, 56) to downst...