1. A patent has been awarded for ‘A Process for the preparation of diagnostic kit for detection of β-thalassemia syndromes’ by Patent office, Govt. of India in January 2005 (No. 194149). This was submitted by Colah RB, Gorakshakar AC, Mohanty D.
2. A patent has been filed for “A novel method of detecting mutations” to Patent office, Govt. of India (Application No. 1198/MUM/2007) by K Ghosh & S Shetty.