MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611023348 A) filed by Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute Of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, on Feb. 27, for 'method for extraction of khimp fibres from an arid-region shrub leptadenia pyrotechnica.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Mukesh Bajya; Dr. Anilkumar Lalchand Yadav; Mr. Pankaj; Ms. Mehak; Ms. Sonu; and Ms. Shruti Kumari.
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 discloses a method (100) for extraction of Khimp fibres from an arid-region shrub Leptadenia pyrotechnica, comprising the steps of: collecting green stems of the Khimp plant from arid regions and cleaning the stems to remove dust, dirt, and foreign matter (step 102); subjecting the cleaned stems to retting comprising steps (104 & 106) of biological retting by immersing them in water containing a mixture of cow dung and jaggery for a predetermined period under ambient conditions to facilitate microbial degradation of pectic and binding substances and alkali retting by subjecting the biologically retted stems to alkali treatment using an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution to further remove lignin, hemicellulose, and residual non-cellulosic materials; washing and drying the treated stems (step 108); and mechanically or manually separating fibres from the treated stems to obtain clean and spinnable Khimp fibres suitable for textile and technical applications (step 110)."
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