MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541133747 A) filed by Woxsen University, Hyderabad, Telangana, on Dec. 30, 2025, for 'food waste reduction system for institutional dining environments.'
Inventor(s) include Jose Luis (Peplluis) de la Rosa Esteva; Dr. Anand Kakarla; Bhadra Korukonda; Alluri Druthi Sai Sri Varma; Khambampati Bhavyasri; Lokesh Kumar Korampalli; Nikhitha. G; Meghana Korimi; Maddala Gayathri; and A Vamsidhara Reddy.
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: "A food waste reduction system for institutional dining environments, comprising a taste profiling form generating module 101 for graph construction, which enables the creation of anonymous forms to collect initial food taste preferences, generating multiple user nodes without any association to user credentials, a graph neural network (GNN)-based user similarity model 102 represents the users as nodes within a graph, edges indicate similarity in taste profiles, a plate waste detection module 103 provides passive preference feedback by analyzing leftovers to infer satisfaction levels, a satisfaction-based recommendation engine 104 categorizes incoming users into a 3-level satisfaction index, based on the proximity of the incoming users in the GNN graph to previous users and the waste feedback recorded from prior users, the modules 101,103, the GNN-based model 102, and the recommendation engine 104 are embedded in non-volatile memory 105 and executed by a processor 106."
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