MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521125423 A) filed by Lakshmi Narain College Of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, on Dec. 11, 2025, for 'mine safety and emergency response device.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Vinita Saxena.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A mine safety and emergency response device, comprising of a body 101 installed with a pair of track wheels 102, developed to navigate within underground and surface mining environments, an environmental monitoring and detection module to continuously capture environmental, structural, and human safety parameters for real-time hazard detection, a countermeasure deployment arrangement to neutralize hazardous gas conditions and stabilize the mine environment. an autonomous debris clearance arrangement to remove, lift, and relocate rocks, debris, and collapsed structural material obstructing mine tunnels, a rear-mounted rescue arrangement to perform debris removal, victim localization, environmental stabilization, and emergency human assistance in mine disaster conditions, a water dispensing and hydration management to provide fire suppression, dust control, thermal regulation, and emergency hydration during rescue operations."

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