MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511116188 A) filed by Nims University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Nov. 24, 2025, for 'gamified gps cleanup system.'
Inventor(s) include Ankit Kumar.
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: "The invention discloses a system for incentivizing environmental cleanup comprising: a mobile application (101) on a mobile device including a user interface, a GPS module (103), and a camera module (105); a back-end server (102) in network communication with the mobile application; a session initiation module (104) for generating cleanup session records; an image data module (106) for storing before and after images; a timestamp module (109) for associating temporal data; a verification module (111) on the back-end server including image recognition hardware and algorithms; a gamification and rewards engine (112) for assigning points (113); and a rewards system (114) providing at least one reward selected from virtual badges (115), public leaderboard (116) entries, digital coupons (117), and carbon credits (118). Additional modules include litter classification module (107), partner integration module (121), data analytics dashboard (120), and reward wallet (119) for storing and redeeming rewards."
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