MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411020042 A) filed by Shobhit Institute Of Engineering & Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, on March 18, 2024, for 'packed food item holding device for refrigerators.'
Inventor(s) include Divya Prakash; Bhupendra Chauhan; Rajiv Dutta; and Shiva Sharma.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A packed food item holding device for refrigerators, comprises of a platform 1 to be positioned on a tray 2 installed within a refrigerator, an extendable plate 3 configured with platform 1 via a motorized hinge to secure a packed food item, a camera 4 mounted on platform 1 to detect height of the food item, a telescopically operated gripper 5 configured with the plate 3 to grip the food in a stacked manner, a telescopically operated pusher 8 configured with the plate 3 to extend for gripping the food item between the plate 3 pusher 8 and back portion of the refrigerator, an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) module to detect expiring of the food item and an LED (Light Emitting Diode) light 6 to glow and notify the user regarding expired food."
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