MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611050804 A) filed by Graphic Era, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on April 21, for 'a system and method for ai-enabled smart eco-friendly produce preservation cart.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Suman Naithani; Ajay K. Gairola; and Dr. Madan Lal.

The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to an AI-enabled smart eco-friendly produce preservation cart in the technical field of refrigerated food storage, comprising a cart chassis with compartmentalized storage modules (20) forming insulated enclosures (21) lined with phase-change insulation material (23), a multi-modal sensor assembly (10) monitoring temperature (11), relative humidity (12), ethylene concentration (13) and surface moisture (14), an intelligent climate-control subsystem (30) with thermoelectric Peltier modules (31), variable-speed DC fans (32), ultrasonic humidifiers (33) and electronically actuated dampers (34), and a computer-vision quality-monitoring system (40) with high-resolution RGB/HSV cameras (41) and LED illumination strips (42). A central AI processing and control cabinet (50) housing an embedded computing unit (51) interfaces via I/O module (52) and executes a data-fusion engine for remaining useful life prediction, an embedded machine-learning framework for closed-loop control, an AI-driven inventory-rotation module (81) for first-expire-first-out scheduling, an energy-optimization module (61-64) with photovoltaic array, battery pack and power controllers, and a communication and alert interface (70) dispatching MQTT/RESTful notifications, performing anomaly detection and online incremental learning."

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