MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541134561 A) filed by Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, on Dec. 31, 2025, for 'a smart refrigerator inventory management system using iot sensing, ai vision, and real-time alerting.'

Inventor(s) include E. Lalitha; R. Snehanjali; R. Snehitha; S. Karthika; and U. Mani Deepika.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention introduces an IoT-based smart refrigerator management system that autonomously supervises, analyzes, and optimizes food storage cond...