MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202423034294 A) filed by Siemens Technology And Services Pvt. Ltd., Maharashtra, on April 30, 2024, for 'method and system for managing emissions in transportation of consignment.'

Inventor(s) include Babu G, Suresh; Sarkar, Vivek; and Sudhir, R.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides a method and a system method managing emissions in transportation of a consignment. The method comprises receiving, from a consignment database, transportation data for the consignment being transported by an assigned vehicle, to be delivered to a target location from a source location, including a vehicle ID and a travel distance. The method further comprises retrieving an emission factor including information about emission per unit distance for the assigned vehicle based on the vehicle ID, and determining estimated emissions for the transportation of the consignment via the assigned vehicle based on the emission per unit distance and the travel distance. The method further comprises generating a unique machine-readable label for the consignment, including the transportation data and the estimated emissions. The method further comprises authenticating the assigned vehicle in which the consignment is to be transported at the source location using the unique machine-readable label."

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