MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411025571 A) filed by Shobhit Institute Of Engineering & Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, on March 28, 2024, for 'boarding/de-boarding assistive device for watercrafts.'

Inventor(s) include R. P. Aggarwal; Anil Joshi; Nimra; and Neha Rani.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A boarding/de-boarding assistive device for watercrafts, comprising a curved-shaped platform 1 positioned over shore of a water body, an inflated tube 2 is arranged on periphery of platform 1 to remain on surface of the water body, an imaging unit 4 to detec...