Published patent application 1 of 3 · Journal 12/2026

Medication dispenser with on-device user authentication and medication verification

A pill dispenser that recognises the patient's face, releases only their dose, then checks the pill with an on-device classifier before it is taken. Nothing leaves the device.

• 627 KB INT8 MobileNetV2
• 2.97 ms inference on CPU
• Face to verified dose in under 5 s on a Raspberry Pi 4

Number

IN202641027860 A1

Filed

10.03.2026

Published

20.03.2026, journal 12/2026

Office

Intellectual Property Office, India

Applicant

Vellore Institute of Technology

Inventors

Chemmalar Selvi G, Anshul Panigrahi, Parth Surendra Sharma