MUMBAI, India, June 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621047955 A) filed by Sage University on April 15, 2026, for Apparatus And Method For Forensic Fingerprint Acquisition With Tamper-Evident Chain-Of-Custody Recording.

Inventors include Ms. Sakshi Agrawal; Dr. Prashant Jain; Prof. Ankita Thakur; Ritesh Chopade; and Abhishek Pal.

The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT The present disclosure relates to forensic fingerprint acquisition with tamper-evident chain-of-custody recording. The apparatus (102) includes a beam- splitting optical assembly (104) that directs identical optical images from an evidence surface to a primary image s...