Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Smart Cane For Visually Impaired' Filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology

MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051426 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 22, for 'smart cane for visually impaired.'

Inventor(s) include Hardik Hasani; Raghav Arora; Mehul Dhingra; Ummity Srinivasa Rao; and Jayaram Balabaskaran.

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: "A smart cane (100) for visually impaired users is disclosed. The cane (100) includes a cane body (102) having a handle (104) and a shaft (106), an ultrasonic sensor (110) mounted on the shaft (106), a LiDAR or time-of-flight sensor (112) mounted on the cane body ...