MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611001801 A) filed by UPES, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on Jan. 7, for 'portable device for evaluating sweetness and flavour characteristics of food.'

Inventor(s) include Priyal Sharma; and Dr. Kaushik Ghosh.

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 invention discloses a portable device (100) for evaluating sweetness and flavour characteristics of food, comprising a spoon-shaped body (102) having a spoon tip and a handle. Further the spoon-shaped body (102) comprises a sensing module (104), configured to detect one or more parameters, when dipped into a food sample. Further spoon-shaped body (102) comprises a memory (106) having one or more computer readable instructions and at least one processor (108) communicatively coupled with the memory (106). Further, the at least one processor (108) executing the one or more computer readable instructions stored in the memory (106) is configured to: receive via the sensing module (104), the detected one or more parameters; process and clean the received one or more parameters; transmit the processed data to a user-accessible computing unit (110) comprising a mobile application (110A), to enable the user to make informed decisions."

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