MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641050571 A) filed by Sona College Of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu, on April 21, for 'a hybrid decision support system and method for smartphone selection based on user preferences.'

Inventor(s) include Velusamy A; Gows Maithine A; Harish Madavan K M; and Gokul K K.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A hybrid decision support system and method for recommending a suitable smartphone from a plurality of candidate smartphones is disclosed. The system comprises a data acquisition module configured to collect and preprocess smartphone at...