MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411024905 A) filed by Chandigarh University; and Chandigarh University Technology Business Incubator, Mohali, Punjab, on March 27, 2024, for 'hand-held rock/ stone holding device.'

Inventor(s) include Meenakshi Verma.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A hand-held rock/ stone holding device, comprising an oval-shaped body 1 developed to be hand-held by a user, a motorized iris lid 2 installed on the body 1 for allowing the user to place a rock/ stone within the body 1, an artificial intelligence-based imaging unit 3 installed on th...