MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611022614 A) filed by Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, on Feb. 25, for 'bus ticketing and passenger assistance system.'

Inventor(s) include Rubina Dutta; Moksh Bansal; and Roshandeep Singh.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A bus ticketing and passenger assistance system, comprising a horizontally sliding rail 201 mounted on the bus 301 ceiling, a sliding block 202 coupled to a pantograph arrangement 203 configured to extend and retract to reach passengers, an infrared sensor integrated to detect passenger presence and count, a...