MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631027208 A) filed by Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, West Bengal, on March 9, for 'calorie and cost estimation with balanced diet using machine learning.'

Inventor(s) include Mr. Santosh Prabhakar; Mr. Biplab Kumar Mondal; Mr. Amit Kumar Jha; Sayani Brahmachary; Sumana Panda; Shreya Bhattacharjee; and Sanchayita Dutta.

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: "The invention discloses an AI-driven, fully automated system for food detection, cost estimation, caloric calculation, and personalized dietary planning utilizing Convolutional...