MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641075550 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on June 18, 2026, for System And Method For Fpga-Based Smart Vending With Offline Customer Reward And Random Discount Generation.

Inventors include Poongundran Selvaprabhu; Vetriveeran Rajamani; Vinoth Babu Kumaravelu; Anirudh P; Aravind Srinivas V; Hariharan Ganesan; and Shreyas R. P.

The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT The present invention relates to an FPGA-based smart vending machine system configured to provide offline customer loyalty management and randomized discount generation. The system integrates vending contro...