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Delighted to share that our patent titled “An Apparatus for Discriminating and Reckoning of Peags” has been officially granted and recorded in the Register of Patents today.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my co-inventors — Dr. Joseph Abraham Sundar, Dr. R. Badri Narayanan, and Dr. V. M. Sreehari — for their invaluable contributions throughout this journey.
We are deeply thankful to SASTRA Deemed University for their unwavering support during every stage of design, development, and patent filing. This project was financially supported by the SASTRA-TRR fund.
The invention tackles the challenge of manually sorting and counting large volumes of coins. Our smart, automated system integrates an AI-based module for identifying coin denominations and a robotic mechanism to pick and place the coins into designated bins. A working prototype was successfully demonstrated to officials of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) at the Sabarimala Temple on 15 May 2022.