MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441067937 A) filed by Ashok Leyland Limited, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Sept. 9, 2024, for 'a double decker vehicle with a vertically displacing headrooms and a method thereof.'

Inventor(s) include D. Balakrishnan; N. Gopi Kannan; D. Ravi Shankar; and S. Manikandan.

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: "A double decker vehicle/bus (100) comprising a lower deck (101) and an upper deck (102). The lower deck (101) includes a roof (103), a plurality of stanchions (104), a plurality of pneumatic actuators (driving units) (105) mounted to ...