MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441037190 A) filed by Madras Christian College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on May 10, 2024, for 'immobilized polyculture microalgal rafts for phycoremediation of lentic systems and biomass production.'
Inventor(s) include Mr Judah Jacob; Dr Polur Hanumantha Rao; and Mr Allwin Vinoth Jayakumar.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (100) for treating a polluted water body (200) comprises a raft assembly (102), one or more reusable substrates (104), and a polyculture of one or more than one species of immobilized microalgae (108). ...