MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541133581 A) filed by Dr. Mahalingam College Of Engineering And Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 30, 2025, for 'refrigerator with ai-based food shelf-life estimation and alert system.'

Inventor(s) include S. Divya Vahini; S. Sathyapriya; N. Suganth; and B. Sweetha.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Numerous environmental conditions can cause food to decay, and traditional refrigerators are not intelligent enough to reliably monitor or anticipate freshness. This invention offers an Al-enabled refrigerator system that u...