MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123255 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'emotion-aware virtual assistant for mental health support.'
Inventor(s) include K. R. Sri Preethaa; Linisha Mandal; Sarvagya Samridh Singh; and Kartik Nigam.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method (100) for providing emotion-aware virtual assistant mental health support. The method (100) receives user authentication credentials through a web-based interface (101), validates cred...