MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631027600 A) filed by Shruti Swaroop Pattnaik; Diptiranjan Behera; Dr. Ajaya Kumar Behera; Prof. Nigamananda Das; and Swayam Mallick, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on March 9, for 'a modified bioresin-based vetiver fiber reinforced green sapling pot composition and its preparation process thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Shruti Swaroop Pattnaik; Diptiranjan Behera; Dr. Ajaya Kumar Behera; Prof. Nigamananda Das; and Swayam Mallick.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a modified bioresin-based vetiver fiber-reinforced green sapling pot composition and its preparation process. The process involves cleaning, drying, and immersing vetiver fiber mats and Sal leaves in 2% of sodium hydroxide solution for 2 hours at room temperature, followed by washing and drying. Then black-eye cowpea seeds are soaked in distilled water for 4-8 hours, followed by manual dehulling and grinding to obtain a paste-like slurry to extract cowpea milk. The extracted cowpea milk is stirred with 10 wt.% of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and 10 wt.% of crosslinking agents to obtain a curable modified bioresin. Further, two to three layers of alkali-treated vetiver fibers constituting approximately 50-70 wt.% are impregnated with the modified cowpea resin constituting approximately 50-30 wt.%, and then the impregnated composite layers are compressed at 100-140 C, under a pressure of about 8-12 tons, for 10-30 minutes, to form a biodegradable sapling pot."
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