MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621023011 A) filed by Sage University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on Feb. 26, for 'solar-powered voice-guided system for biomedical waste segregation in rural healthcare facilities.'

Inventor(s) include Ms. Sakshi Agrawal; Dr. Mukesh Kumar Malviya; Dr. Deepak Agrawal; Poonam Rijhwani; and Shubi Pandey.

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: "A system (100) for segregation and monitoring of biomedical waste with autonomous power operation and multilingual voice interface includes a solar photovoltaic panel (102) configured to generate e...