MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621003709 A) filed by Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, on Jan. 14, for 'a blind stick with obstacle detection and non-gps sos alert system.'

Inventor(s) include Karandikar, Varsha Narayan; Shingane, Devyani; Shinganapurkar, Renuka; Shirbate, Malhar; Shivale, Pranav; Dubey, Shivam; and Chandak, Shlok.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a stick system equipped with obstacle detection and a non-GPS emergency alert mechanism. The system comprises a power supply (101) providing...