MUMBAI, India, Nov. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521105714 A) filed by Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, on Oct. 31, for 'crowd-responsive automated food serving system.'

Inventor(s) include Suhail Shaik Mohammed; Ufeed Shaik; Ishfaq Shaik; Dr. Madhu Shukla; Simrin Fathima Syed; Vipul Ladva; Akshay Ranpariya; and Neel Dholakia.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 21, under issue no. 47/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A crowd-responsive automated food serving system, comprises an enclosure 101, an inspection module 102 detects individuals and identifies age, gender, and disability status of individuals to evaluate crowd density, a boundary creation module 103 forms boundary lanes, at least one motorized door 104 to allow entry of one individual at a time, a user interaction module to interact with the individuals for food options and receive verbal food selection, a crockery dispensing module to dispense crockery over a first conveyor belt 113, a food dispensing module to dispense food into the crockery, a second conveyor belt 114 to extend/retract based on increasing row detected via the sensing module, a food quality analysis unit to assess food freshness and halt distribution if food spoilage is detected and an IoT-enabled database receives real-time data from all modules and a machine learning model analyses data to predict peak demand periods."

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