MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641096849 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on August 11, 2026, for Intelligent Autonomous Biometric Courier Container System For Secure Last-Mile Delivery.
Inventors include Jagadeesan S; Kishore E; Vishva S A; Dhanush T; and Deepak C.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS BIOMETRIC COURIER CONTAINER SYSTEM FOR SECURE LAST-MILE DELIVERY A system for secure last- mile delivery comprises a portable container system (10) transported with a parcel through successive custody handovers. A multi-layer biometric authentication subsystem (20) includes a fingerprint sensor (22), a facial recognition camera (24) with liveness detection, and an OTP input interface (26). An electronic lock mechanism (30) locks or unlocks the container system (10) based on authentication results. A sensor array (40) provides location, weight, environmental, and motion data. A microcontroller (60) executes an autonomous AI decision engine that selects and executes delivery actions based on multi-sensor fusion without human intervention and generates hash-chained cryptographic custody blocks for each handover event. A cellular communication module antenna (50) provides autonomous connectivity. A cloud platform (70) comprises a predictive digital twin service (72), a trust score engine (74), and an explainable AI module (76). (FIG. 1)
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