MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042510 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on April 2, for 'plastic bottle segregation system with qr-coded lids.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Shabari Shedthi B; Swathi Mithanthaya; Shrutha Jain S; Sujan; Sinchana Lakshmi; and Sooraj.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein is a plastic bottle having QR-coded lids (102) containing numeric identifiers representing different types of plastic, a communication network (106) to transmit captured image data, and a recycling vending machine (104) to segregate the plast...