MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641006862 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 23, for 'apparatus and method for waste recycling and segregation using machine learning.'

Inventor(s) include Jerome Vasanth; Praveen Kumar; and Avadhesh Kumar Sharma.

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 (100) for waste recycling and segregation using machine learning. The apparatus (100) includes a hopper (102) that directs mixed waste onto a conveyor (104). A segregation chamber (106-1) is coupled to th...