MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641048964 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on April 17, for 'chair-based sitting posture monitoring and alert generation system.'
Inventor(s) include Bhumika Salian; Keerthana Shenoy; Krissel Rhea Monteiro; Mr. Sandeep Kumar S; and Gurumurthy S C.
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: "Disclosed herein is a chair-based sitting posture monitoring and alert generation system (100), the system (100) comprises a chair (102) supports a user during seated activities, a plurality of sensors (104) senses pressure variations, an alert unit (106) generates an alert, a processing unit (110) to process real-time data, which further comprises a data input module (112) receives real-time data, a preprocessing module (114) cleans and reduces noise in the received data, a feature extraction module (116) extracts pressure distribution features, a posture detection module (120) detects the sitting posture of the user, a posture classification module (122) classifies the detected posture into predefined categories, a duration monitoring module (126) monitors a predefined time duration, a decision module (128) determines whether the detected improper posture exceeds a predefined time threshold, an alert generation module (130) generates an alert through the alert unit (106), an output module (132) transmits the outputs."
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