MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641006861 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 23, for 'hybrid pneumatic starting system for internal combustion engines.'

Inventor(s) include Nihal Vishnu C; and Sugumaran V.

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: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system (100) and a method (300) for starting an internal combustion engine (140) of a vehicle. The system (100) includes a vehicle electrical power source (102), an electric motor (104), a compressor (106) mechanically coupled to the elect...