MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042510 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on April 2, for 'plastic bottle segregation system with qr-coded lids.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Shabari Shedthi B; Swathi Mithanthaya; Shrutha Jain S; Sujan; Sinchana Lakshmi; and Sooraj.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein is a plastic bottle having QR-coded lids (102) containing numeric identifiers representing different types of plastic, a communication network (106) to transmit captured image data, and a recycling vending machine (104) to segregate the plastic bottles. The vending machine (104) includes a scanning unit (132) positioned over vending machine (104) to read a QR code or identification marking provided on bottle lid (102), a mechanical sorting unit (134) to segregate plastic bottles, based on identified plastic type, and a processing unit (108) operatively coupled to the scanning unit (132) and configured to determine the type of plastic for segregation. The processing unit (108) includes an image acquisition module (110), QR localization and validation module (112), feature extraction module (114), number decoding module (116), plastic classification module (118), output module (120), and an user interface (124) linked to output module (120) to provide system (100) related information."
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