MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641024441 A) filed by Chennai Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on March 2, for 'auto-deploy emergency exit assist frame for aircraft.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. C. Gnana Kousalya; Dr. P. Suresh Kumar; Ms. Selciya Selvan; Tharun Anand P; V Dinakar; and Varshini R.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This provides an external emergency exit assist frame for aircraft or eVTOLs. The present invention does not replace existing designs with manual doors but rather works as an auxiliary to the latter. Upon detection of free-...