MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511117690 A) filed by Delhi Technical Campus, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on Nov. 26, 2025, for 'meal management system for reducing institutional food waste.'

Inventor(s) include Rachana Sharma; Pridhi Arora; Pushkar Priyadarshi; Sudip Sau; and Sagar.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A meal management system for reducing institutional food waste, comprises of a biometric attendance module 101 positioned at the entrance of an institutional dining area for capturing and verifying user identity, a meal wallet application 103 for ...