MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051257 A) filed by Nitte Meenakshi Institute Of Technology, Nitte; Dr. Sudhakar K; Aditya Raj; Aman Khakre; Karumanchi Brundhakshitha; and Muskan Karodiya, Bangalore, Karnataka, on April 22, for 'zayka: the homely cravings - a synthesized ai-powered platform for the cultural creator economy in food.'

Inventor(s) include Nitte Meenakshi Institute Technology, Nitte; Dr. Sudhakar K; Aditya Raj; Aman Khakre; Karumanchi Brundhakshitha; and Muskan Karodiya.

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: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented dual-interface platform (100) that unifies food commerce, artificial-intelligence-driven personalisation and cultural storytelling, thereby transforming food from a purely transactional commodity into a medium of cultural preservation while empowering home chefs and food content creators. The system comprises a user interface layer (110), an API gateway (120) with JWT authentication and rate limiting, a core microservices layer (130) providing order, payment, recipe, creator, analytics, chef-booking and notification services, an AI integration layer (140) comprising a heterogeneous graph neural network recommender (141), a retrieval-augmented generation conversational cooking assistant (142) and a cultural knowledge graph engine (143), and a data persistence layer (150) including a vector embedding database (155) and a cultural knowledge graph store (154), together with a creator-economy module (300) including festival-mode curation, city-centric recommendation, multilingual personalisation, and a monetisation layer (350) for creator payouts. The present invention ensures ingredient-aware and culturally relevant recipe recommendations, live cooking assistance grounded on verified cultural sources, festival-aware and city-aware content curation, multilingual regional-language support, and sustainable monetisation for home chefs and food vloggers, within a single scalable microservices architecture."

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