MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611001658 A) filed by Nims University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Jan. 7, for 'smart blood bank with autonomous storage and retrieval.'

Inventor(s) include Vivek Kumar; and Anjali Goswami.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated blood banking system (100) and method (200) for end-to-end management of blood components with enhanced safety, traceability, and cold-chain integrity. The system includes a robotic receiving station (101) for autonomous intake, an integrated identification module (102) with synchronized barcode/RFID v...