MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521085985 A) filed by Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on Sept. 10, 2025, for 'secure and trustworthy blockchain-based failover model for internet-of-vehicle enabled smart city using ecc cryptosystem.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Dwivedi.

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: "The invention discloses a blockchain-based failover authentication model for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) in Internet-of-Vehicle (loV) enabled smart cities. In existing systems, vehicles rely on the nearest Roadside Un...