MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441035600 A) filed by L&T Technology Services Limited, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on May 3, 2024, for 'smart delivery box with passive heating and cooling.'

Inventor(s) include Sougat Kumar Mandal; and Kunal Goyal.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates generally to food containers, and more particularly to method for controlling temperature in smart delivery box with passive heating and cooling. The method for controlling temperature in smart delivery box with passive heating and cooling, the smart delivery box having main body housing cooling chamber and heating chamber, each designed to maintain specific temperatures suitable for payloads stored therein, the method comprises determining optimal temperatures for cooling and heating chamber, monitoring actual temperatures of the cooling and heating chamber using respective temperature sensors. Further, method discloses comparing actual temperatures of cooling and heating chamber with their respective optimal temperatures. Finally, method discloses selectively activating first blower of cooling chamber to cool cooling chamber when actual temperature of the cooling chamber is greater than optimal temperature of cooling chamber and activating second blower of heating chamber to heat-up the heating chamber when actual temperature of heating chamber is less than optimal temperature of heating chamber."

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