MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641008460 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 28, for 'system for safety-enforced ignition control of a vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Athithiya P A; Sangeetha R G; and Hemanth C.

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: "The present disclosure provides a system (100) for safety-enforced ignition control for a vehicle including a headgear (101), a sensor module (102) to detect intoxication data, a relay module (104) to operably enable and disable ignition of the vehicle, and a control unit (202) that receives the intoxication data from the sensor module (102), determines an ignition-authorization state based on the intoxication data, transmits an ignition control signal to the relay module (104) when the ignition authorization state remains valid, and transmits a relay interrupt signal to the relay module (104) when the ignition authorization state indicates an invalid."

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