MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641006926 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 23, for 'apparatus and method for automatic medicine dispensing.'

Inventor(s) include Pulak Konar; Saurav Gupta; Harsh Yadav; Avishkar Jaiswal; and Kushagra Sarswat.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 6, under issue no. 06/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus (102) and a method (300) for automatic medicine dispensing. The apparatus (102) includes a storage module to store medicines. The apparatus (102) includes an automatic dispensing mechanism to identify and di...