MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641061857 A) filed by KKR & KSR Institute of Technology and Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, on May 15, for 'a novel iot and machine learning based automatic waste segregator.'

Inventor(s) include S Padma Priya; Dr. Chittineni Aruna; Koye Harshitha; Kotapati Bhargavi; and Dr. K. Mallikarjuna Rao.

The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The smart waste segregation system is proposed to address the growing challenge of inefficient manual waste sorting by automating the identification and separation of different waste types in real time. ...