MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541126515 A) filed by Dayananda Sagar Academy Of Technology And Management; Mahalakshmi G; Sakshi P; Harshitha B; and Sindhu N R, Bangalore, Karnataka, on Dec. 14, 2025, for 'intelligent lost and found system using image processing and optical character recognition.'
Inventor(s) include Dayananda Sagar Academy Of Technology And Management; Mahalakshmi G; Sakshi P; Harshitha B; and Sindhu N R.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 6, under issue no. 06/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to an intelligent lost and found management system that utilizes image processing and optical character recognition technologies to automate the identification, categorization, and matching of lost items with their owners. The system comprises an image capture subsystem for photographing found items, an image processing module for extracting visual features, an OCR engine for extracting textual information, a classification engine for automatic categorization, a database for storing structured records, a matching algorithm engine for calculating multi-dimensional similarity scores between lost and found items, and a notification system for alerting users of potential matches. The present invention ensures significantly reduced manual labor in lost and found operations, improved matching accuracy through automated feature extraction, enhanced user accessibility via web and mobile interfaces, faster item recovery through intelligent matching and real-time notifications, and increased overall recovery rates compared to traditional manual systems."
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