MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641110230 A) filed by Sathyabama Institute Of Science And Technology Deemed To Be University on September 14, 2026, for Autonomous Floating Waste Collection Device.
Inventor includes Dr. S. Lakshmi Sankar.
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: An autonomous floating waste collection device, comprising a buoyant body 101 with an intake opening, an AI camera 102, to identify a location of floating waste on a water surface, a propulsion arrangement configured to move the buoyant body 101 across the water surface toward the identified location, a suction unit 104 to draw water and waste through the intake opening, at least one sensor to monitor a parameter related to waste collection, a microcontroller communicatively coupled to the device, to coordinate the propulsion arrangement to navigate to the identified location and to control the suction unit 104 based on data from the at least one sensor, an internal self-cleaning arrangement comprising a slow-rotating spiral guide 106 positioned within an intake funnel along with a motorized brush 107, to activate the spiral guide 106 upon detection of a clog by a flow sensor.
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