MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517056278 A) filed by Saint-Gobain Centre De Recherches Et D'Etudes Europeen, Courbevoie, France, on June 11, for 'dvc for a smelting furnace lining.'

Inventor(s) include Boumahdi, Najih; Champion, Thibault; and Roumiguier, Lena.

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: "The invention relates to a pulverulent mixture for producing a protective lining of a metal smelting furnace, wherein the mixture consists, for a total of 100% and as weight percentages on the basis of the weight of the mixture, of: - less than 1% by weight of water, and ...