NIT bags patent for leg exerciser machine

NIT bags patent for leg exerciser machine

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 21

A team of the faculty of the Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT) has been granted a patent for a “Leg exerciser machine”, useful for physiotherapists working on muscular dystrophy and post-fracture patients.

Refusing to give much details and photograph of the invention due to the apprehension of copying, inventors Dr Kuldeep Singh Nagla, Dr Moin Uddin, Akshay Katyal and Amandeep Singh Kalra, elaborated that the leg exerciser machine might be a very useful device for physiotherapists for curing post-fracture stiffness of lower limbs, lower limb weakening for paralysed patients and patients with muscular dystrophy.

The team members said, “It is just another patent granted to the institute followed by an invention ‘Mechanism to clean the bird dropping in the poultry farms’. Four industrial designs and many other patents are already in credit of the institute.

The institute has filed five more patents out of which inventions such as ‘Cookies dispensing machine’ and ‘Watermelon seed extraction machine’ might be available at homes in near future.” The team thanked to the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Punjab and Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science and Technology, GoI, for providing financial assistance for various projects.

Dr Nagla, inventor and faculty advisor of the IPR cell, said after the implementation of the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion had initiated several steps to foster innovation in the country. The time taken to grant the IPR had also been significantly reduced after the implementation of the new IPR policy. 

Dr SK Pahuja, head of Instrumentation and Control Engineering Department, Dr Arvind Bhardwaj, Dean, R&C, Registrar Dr Rohit Mehra and Director Prof Lalit Kumar Awasthi congratulated Dr Nagla and the team for success in getting the IPR.