MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541129978 A) filed by Takshashila University, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 22, 2025, for 'a low cost multimodal system to detect counterfeit indian coins.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. P. Deepa; Dr. R. Uma; R. Ilayaraja; and S. Dhanalakshmi.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This invention relates to a low-cost multimodal system to detect counterfeit Indian coins. It typically includes a smartphone (1), a smartphone microphone (2), a smartphone camera (3), a low-cost weighing scale (4), a coin slot (5), a small magnet (6), a signal processing module (7), an image processing module (8), a data fusion io module (9), and lightweight machine learning classifier (10). This invention provides fast, highly reliable, and portable counterfeit coin detection by combining diverse low- cost features in a smartphone-based application, thereby significantly enhancing financial security and public trust. This invention is primarily applicable for quick, on- spot authentication in retail, banking, and small businesses, and for integration into is vending machines and ticketing systems to reject non-genuine currency, with potential adaptation for verifying other small metallic tokens."
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