MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517049750 A) filed by Kao Corporation, Tokyo, on May 23, for 'injection needle.'

Inventor(s) include Niitsu, Takatoshi; Nishimura, Tomoya; Hariu, Wataru; Onishi, Shintaro; and Koike, Natsumi.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This injection needle has first and second fine projections (11, 12) protruding from a sheet base (2), the first projections (11) each having a conical shape and an opening (11a) at the tip, the second projections (12) not having an opening at the tip, and the first and second projections having a protrusio...