MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641063506 A) filed by Coimbatore Institue Of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on May 20, for 'portable braille embosser with multi-modal input and cnc-based tactile dot embossing.'
Inventor(s) include Parishith M R; Saravana Harish R C; Harish R; Pranesh S M; and Ms. R. Pavithra.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A portable braille embossing system comprises a mobile computing device hosting a braille conversion application that acquires camera-captured text, voice, image and typed input, and converts the same on-device into motion-control instructions encoding Unified English Braille geometry; a wireless buffering controller having a non-volatile memory for storing the said instructions and a handshake controller for flow-controlled forwarding to a motion controller; and a CNC embossing assembly having a needle-punch head coupled to a Z-axis actuator and applying a force of not less than 20 N to a paper substrate so as to produce raised tactile dots of dot diameter 1.44 mm, dot height 0.48 mm, inter-dot pitch 2.34 mm, cell pitch 6.20 mm and line pitch 10.00 mm. A corresponding method and a computer-readable medium are also claimed."
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