MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641009075 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on Jan. 29, for 'smart comb for automated split end detection and removal system and method thereof.'

Inventor(s) include Swathi K; and Nagapriyakamath K.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein is a smart comb for automated split end detection and removal system and method thereof (100) that comprises a comb body (102) supporting integrated components of the system (100). A plurality of bristles (104) guides hair strands, while a plurality of sensors (106) performs continuous detection and generates sensed data. A plurality of light emitting diode (108) emits multiple types of light to assist detection and analysis. A communication network (110) transmits sensed data to a user device (112) and a processing unit (114). The processing unit (114) includes a data input module (116), a pre-processing module (118), a hair detection module (120), a hair classification module (122), and an output generation module (124) for hair condition analysis and alert generation. A user interface (126) displays outputs, and a trimming unit (128) performs trimming of damaged hair strands based on user input."

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