MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541133693 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 30, 2025, for 'wrist-worn drowning detection device.'

Inventor(s) include Abhinav V; Ajay Sriram; Abirami S; and Nathezhtha T.

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 wrist-worn drowning detection device (100) integrates a housing (102) as a waterproof casing that incorporates a plurality of sensors (104) to track user-specific motion, physiological, and environmental data. A microcontroller (106) with onboard processors (106-A) and memory (106-C) anal...