MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511117035 A) filed by Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Nov. 25, 2025, for 'automated weed barrier sheet installation device.'

Inventor(s) include Naresh Soni.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated weed barrier sheet installation device, comprising a cuboidal body 101 positioned on ground surface, a pair of motorized track wheels 102 providing movement to the body 101, a imaging unit 103 determines the presence of plants, a touch interactive display panel 104 for displaying the evaluated mapping and enabling the user to select plant(s), a motorized roller 105 to rotate and gradually dispense the sheet, a gear and gear train arrangement 106 to provide the circular motion, the pair of rods grippers provided with an arrangement to adjust the position of sheet, a semicircular plate 107 attached to an extended link 108 with multiple multi-hinges 109 to adapt to plant size during sheet placement."

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