MUMBAI, India, July 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541060893 A) filed by Akshaya College Of Engineering And Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on June 25, for 'automatic railway track crack detecting vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Mr. V. Sureshkumar; Mr. C. Gowtham; Mr. R. Sudhakar; Mr. A. Logeshkumar; and Mr. M. Suresh.

The application for the patent was published on July 11, under issue no. 28/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The proposed invention is an Arduino-based Automatic Railway Track Crack Detecting Vehicle that autonomously detects cracks and obstacles on railway tracks using IR sensors. Upon detection, the vehicle uses a GPS module to log t...