MUMBAI, India, Nov. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531017995 A) filed by Siksha O Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, on Feb. 28, for 'gripping assistive device for knife.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Abinash Mahapatro.

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: "A gripping assistive device for knife, comprising of an elongated body 101 configured with a pair of rectangular members, developed to be positioned over blade of a knife, a microphone 102 receives voice command of the user, a microcontroller processes the voice command of the user, an ultrasonic sensor detects the thickness of the blad...