MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122990 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 5, 2025, for 'intelligent book rental and lending platform with machine learning recommendations.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Avulapalli Jayaram Reddy; and Miss. Shivangi Singh.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of operating a book rental and lending platform managing user accounts wherein each user functions as both renter and lender. The method stores book metadata and user data in a database and processes rental transactions for digital and physical books. The platform implements user authentication and generates personalized recommendations by analyzing rental history using machine learning algorithms achieving precision scores exceeding 0.75. The method processes secure payment transactions through integrated gateway services. The system comprises a frontend layer with landing page, login/signup, dashboard, and about page components, a backend layer containing user management, book management, payment processing, and machine learning modules, and a database layer with user and book data storage integrated with Cloudinary and Razorpay API."

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