MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621023727 A) filed by Sage University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on Fe. 27, for 'portable handheld apparatus for real-time object identification.'

Inventor(s) include Ms. Sakshi Agrawal; Dr. Piyush Moghe; Prof. Vishal Kadam; Om Prakash Thakur; and Avni Choudhary.

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: "A portable handheld apparatus (100) for real-time object identification comprises an RGB image sensor (104) configured to capture color image frames and an infrared time-of-flight depth sensor (106) positioned adjacent to the RGB image ...