MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641049772 A) filed by Rns Institute Of Technology; Ambika S; Shriyanshu Kumar Kapsime; Sujith B; Simachalam Vineel; Shwetabja Saha; Sanjana Shekar; Shruti Kirti Singh; and Yashasvi B N, Bangalore, Karnataka, on April 19, for 'a system and method for decentralized civic issue resolution with crowdsourced orchestration using automated conditional escrow and geo-spatial mapping.'

Inventor(s) include Shriyanshu Kumar Kapsime; Shruti Kirti Singh; Sanjana Shekar; Shwetabja Saha; Simachalam Vineel; Sujith B; Yashasvi B N; and Ambika S.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Urban infrastructure issues in localities often get buried in bureaucratic latency and opaque fund allocation. Traditionally, resolving a localized civic issue involves manual grievance reporting, verification from higher authorities, and centralized municipal dispatch, leading to extended delays where issues often remain unsolved. This invention proposes a decentralized digital system that eradicates these manual bottlenecks through crowdsourced orchestration. The system ingests geo-tagged images and text constraints as primary inputs, which are processed by a centralized API routing layer. A custom automated conditional escrow module dynamically calculates funding parity from citizen micro-transactions. Upon mathematical completion of the funding threshold, a state-machine algorithm autonomously shifts the computational state of the issue, triggering a localized dispatch signal to a dedicated worker interface. Finally, the system enforces a closed-loop verification, requiring cryptographic token authorization (JWT) from the original reporter to approve photographic proof-of-work and release the locked digital assets. This workflow establishes an automated civic issue resolution system which replaces traditional system. This architecture is deployed using a React.js frontend and a Node.js/Express REST API, creating a trust-less, peer-driven environment."

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