MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123255 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'emotion-aware virtual assistant for mental health support.'
Inventor(s) include K. R. Sri Preethaa; Linisha Mandal; Sarvagya Samridh Singh; and Kartik Nigam.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method (100) for providing emotion-aware virtual assistant mental health support. The method (100) receives user authentication credentials through a web-based interface (101), validates credentials against a user database (102), and upon successful validation, initializes a therapy session with user-specified therapeutic parameters (103). The method (100) generates AI-powered therapeutic responses using natural language processing based on user input and session context (105), presents mental health assessment questions from standardized assessment instruments (206), collects user responses (208), and calculates assessment scores (210). The method (100) generates clinical interpretation based on predetermined score ranges (212), provides recommendations based on assessment results (216, 218), stores conversation data and assessment results in a secure database (106), and maintains session continuity across multiple interactions (107, 108)."
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