MUMBAI, India, July 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521059419 A) filed by Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, on June 20, for 'book handling and reading assistive device.'
Inventor(s) include Mohammed Hamid M. Ali; and Dr. Sunil Lavadiya.
The application for the patent was published on July 11, under issue no. 28/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A book handling and reading assistive device comprising a cabinet 101 adapted to house a physical book, a dedicated cabinet 101 frame 102 with adjustable side clamps 103, a tilt arrangement to securely hold and angle books, a mechanical attachment 104 mounted atop cabinet 101 with a first arm 104a to hold book open and a second arm 104b ending in a fingertip featuring a micro-structured dry adhesive pad 105 for turning pages, servo motors controlling movements of second arm 104b based on a predefined motion path via sensor feedback, a sensor suite including infrared, optical, tactile pressure, and thickness sensors for detecting book presence, page alignment, and single-page turning accuracy, a transparent flattening plate 106 to keep pages flat during scanning, an imaging unit 107 synced with an integrated OCR module for scanning, and a multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) module for audio output."
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