MUMBAI, India, Nov. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531019211 A) filed by Siksha O Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, on March 4, for 'automated cask shaping device.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Praveen Priyaranjan Nayak.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 28, under issue no. 48/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated cask shaping device, comprising a platform 101 positioned over a ground surface by means of plurality of wheels 102, platform 101 is accessed by a user to position a circular wooden plate attached with plurality of wooden staves that are to be shaped into a cask, an artificial intelligence based imaging unit 103 determine...