MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517045908 A) filed by Societe Des Produits Nestle S. A., Vevey, Switzerland, on May 13, for 'detection of variation in a noodle package.'

Inventor(s) include Chattopadhyay, Ayan; and Banerjee, Nayandeep.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated system (100) for detecting variation of articles (104) in a noodle package (102) is disclosed. The automated system (100) includes a light source (106) to illuminate light on a noodle package (102), photoelectric sensor (108) configured to capture signals based on the light absorbed and reflected by one of: the articles (104) in the noodle package (102) and inner walls of the noodle package (102) and an article detection engine (110) to: correlate the captured signals with pre-stored data to detect a variation in at least one of: type of article (104) and number of articles (104) in the package (102), wherein the variation is from a predefined type and number of the article (104) intended to be in the noodle package (102) and rejection of the noodle package (102) upon finding a variation in the at least one of: type of the article (104) and number of the article (104) in the noodle package (102)."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 07, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/084734.

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