MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411019280 A) filed by Sanskriti University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on March 15, 2024, for 'secured refrigerator locking device.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Bed Prakash.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A secured refrigerator locking device comprises of a pair of elongated primary and secondary bodies 1, 2 installed on edge of a refrigerator's door and corresponding refrigerator body's edge, an imaging unit 3 for determining facial feature of a user, a database to store details of authorized users for accessing refrigerator whic...