MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641048457 A) filed by Shreepad Hegde, Hyderabad, Telangana, on April 16, for 'a glove port monitoring, interlock, and event-logging system for containment devices.'

Inventor(s) include Shreepad Hegde.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a glove port monitoring and interlock system (100) for a containment device. The system (100) comprises a plurality of glove port guard units (102a, 102b,...102n) mounted on one or more glove ports (104a, 104b,...104n) of a containment device, a centralized controller (301) in communication with the plurality of glove port guard units (102a, 102b,...102n), and an containment device control unit (303) in communication with the centralized controller (301). The centralized controller (301) is configured to monitor status information from the plurality of glove port guard units (102a, 102b,...102n), transmit the status to a centralized controller (301), evaluate one or more predefined permissive conditions for one or more containment device operations based on the status information, determine whether the one or more containment device operations are to be enabled/ inhibited, and communicate status information or alarm information to the containment device control unit (303)."

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