MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541133692 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 30, 2025, for 'system and method for self-powered smart footwear with real-time physiological sensing.'

Inventor(s) include Shankar Raman N; Dhanush Sriram G; Shakil Sunder C S; Nathezhtha T; Abirami S; Sakthivel G; and Sivakumar R.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (102) for health and activity monitoring using a smart footwear (100) may include a processor (302), memory (304), a sensor module (150), and a power management unit (140). The...