MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411066595 A) filed by Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on Sept. 3, 2024, for 'an iot-based refrigerator monitoring system for real-time grocery tracking and food waste reduction.'

Inventor(s) include Umar Abdullah; Arshad Alam; and Shilpi Sharma.

The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to an IoT-based refrigerator monitoring system designed to track groceries in real-time and reduce food wastage. The system comprises a hardware module incorporating an ESP32-CAM microcontroller, an OV2640 camera, ...