MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511117690 A) filed by Delhi Technical Campus, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on Nov. 26, 2025, for 'meal management system for reducing institutional food waste.'
Inventor(s) include Rachana Sharma; Pridhi Arora; Pushkar Priyadarshi; Sudip Sau; and Sagar.
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 meal management system for reducing institutional food waste, comprises of a biometric attendance module 101 positioned at the entrance of an institutional dining area for capturing and verifying user identity, a meal wallet application 103 for users to input meal preferences and manage their digital meal accounts, an artificial intelligence demand forecasting engine 102 for analyzing attendance and historical data to predict meal demand, a surplus meal redistribution pipeline 104 for monitoring and redirecting leftover meals to recipient organizations, a packaging system for safely packaging surplus meals, a sensor array configured for monitoring food safety parameters such as temperature and hygiene, a communication module for transmitting data between system components, and a real-time analytics interface 105 for displaying attendance, demand, and waste metrics to administrators."
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