MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202431021573 A) filed by Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on March 21, 2024, for 'method and system for detecting defects on a pinch roll in a hot strip mill.'

Inventor(s) include Keerthana George; R. Shunmuga Sundaram; Rohit Kumar Agrawal; Navaneethakrishnamoorthi Mohanram; Bonikila Pradeep Reddy; P S S Ganesh; and S Balamurugan.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Present disclosure relates to a method and a system for detecting defects on a pinch roll (102) in a hot strip mill. The method comprising placing a robot (10...