MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051562 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on April 22, for 'system for detecting and regulating body-focused repetitive behaviors using dual magnetometer sensors.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Sivaranjani A; P Priya Ponnuswamy; Sai Surya Siddharth Mylavarapu; and Krupa H D.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a wearable behavioral regulation system configured to detect repetitive hand-to-body interactions using magnetic proximity sensing. The system comprises a finger sleeve assembly incorporating a primary magnetometer sensor (6A), a microcontroller-based control circuit (5C), and a replaceable coin-cell battery (5B) housed within a power module (1A). An auxiliary magnetometer sensor (8A) is positioned on a wrist or forearm band and electrically connected to the finger sleeve assembly. The control circuit (5C) receives magnetic field vector measurements from the primary magnetometer sensor (6A) and the auxiliary magnetometer sensor (8A) and performs differential magnetic field analysis. Based on the processed sensor signals, the control circuit generates control signals for a modular feedback subsystem (7) comprising a driver stage (7A), electrical stimulation interface (7C), vibration actuator (7D), and audio buzzer (7E). The system is configured for wearable operation using event-driven sensing and embedded signal processing."
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