MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641007341 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 25, for 'system and method for automated splitting of shared dining costs using photograph-based visual cost allocation.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. P. Baskaran; and Ayuishi Singla.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 6, under issue no. 06/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system for automated splitting of shared dining costs using photograph-based visual cost allocation is provided. The system 100 includes bill-splitting server 106 that interacts with user device 102 to receive dining location and retriev...