MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641028863 A) filed by Peri Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on March 11 for 'self-powered walkway system using piezoelectric footstep energy conversion.'

Inventor(s) include Shyam R; Yuvaraj P; Mohamed Shahin B; Shree Dharshan P; Venkatrajan V; and Rishidharan M.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The current high rate of increase in the world electricity demand has caused excessive reliance on non-renewable sources of energy like coal and petroleum, which cause massive contamination of the environment and are few in the...