MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641077273 A) filed by Dayananda Sagar University on June 23, 2026, for Fresh-Minder: Automated Expiry Date Tracking For Food Safety And Waste Reduction.

Inventors include Shivamma D; Dr. U Pavan Kumar; Dr. Shaila S G; Pavan Kumar G; Rahul V; Sumanth S G; and Rakshith Ignatius R.

The application for the patent was published on July 03, 2026, under issue no. 27/2026.

Abstract: A system where a bar-code scanner at a retail checkout counter records the batch of prod-ucts sold and updates inventory at a granular level, describing a consumer mobile app which displays notifications based on product inventory and expiry dates. On the enter-prise side, a c...