MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621003631 A) filed by Sage University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on Jan. 13, for 'health kiosk system for automated healthcare consultation and medicine dispensing.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Prashant Jain; Dr. Ati Jain; Dr. Ritu Tandon; Devanshi Patel; and Mahak Mishra.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A health kiosk system (100) for providing automated healthcare consultation and automated medicine dispensing. The system comprises a touchscreen display (102), a voice assistant unit (104) supporting multiple languages, a scanner (106) with OCR capability, a processing unit (108), and a medicine vending machine unit (110). The processing unit (108) receives symptom data, analyses it using a trained computational model to generate health advice, processes scanned pathology reports to generate interpreted reports in simplified language, validates medicine requests, and communicates dispensing commands to the vending unit. The system includes offline and online processing units enabling operation without network connectivity, a payment system (112) supporting cash, card, and UPI, and a power system (118) with solar backup for rural deployment."

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