29 Students Become Innovators, with 10 Patentable Prototypes under the mentorship of IIT Gandhinagar
GANDHINAGAR, GUJARAT | 03rd JULY 2026 | Maker Bhavan FoundationTM (MBF), in collaboration with IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Jammu, concluded the 7th edition of InventX – a six-week residential programme where undergraduate students from across India learn to invent, build, and create real patent ready prototypes.
InventX – formerly known as Invention Factory – is an intensive residential invention programme for undergraduate students. Over six weeks, teams from engineering, science, and design colleges come together on IIT campuses to identify real-world problems, develop patentable solutions, build working prototypes, and file provisional patent applications before the programme ends. This year, a total of 60 students were selected from over 1000 applications received from colleges across the country, to participate in this programme hosted in IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Jammu.
This cohort hosted in IIT Gandhinagar closed with 29 students mentored and 10 provisional patent applications filed under IIT Gandhinagar’s mentorship in this edition. InventX has now crossed 120 cumulative patent applications since the programme began – each protecting an invention for one year, filed in both India and the United States.
Excited at the quality of inventions this year on display at the InventX finale at IIT Gandhinagar, Gautam Khanna, CEO, Maker Bhavan FoundationTM , said “India’s ambition to become a global manufacturing and technology leader has to be fuelled by engineering talent having an innovation and maker mindset. At MBF, we are committed to paving the way for a generation of engineers that builds, systemically and at scale. IIT Gandhinagar’s mentorship has been instrumental in this and it is encouraging to see the impressive prototypes developed in this extremely short duration”
Over six rigorous weeks, students committed themselves into real world engineering – not solving a problem from a textbook, but finding one worth solving in the first place. They identified gaps, challenged assumptions, built prototypes that failed, rebuilt them, and tested again. Subject matter experts as guest evaluators, challenge, improve and test the realworld application of these inventions. The program concluded with a final presentation to a panel of academics, industry experts, and patent attorneys.
Proud at the accomplishment of the students, Prof Rajat Moona, Director – IIT Gandinagar commented” InventX distinguishes itself through its outcome-oriented approach, where students cultivate a maker and innovation mindset by identifying real-world problems, building working prototypes and filing patent applications. Supported by our expert faculty and industry experts, the program fosters the ‘Maker Movement’ essential for India’s future, a vision Maker Bhavan Foundation is effectively championing.
The top three teams at each campus were also awarded cash prize of Rs 2,00,000, 1,00,000 and 50,000. Further every participating team has filed a provisional patent application for their prototype in both India and the US, which will soon be awarded to tube student inventors.
WINNERS
IIT Gandhinagar
1st Prize:
[Ihsaan K S, Shreyansh Jain, Ritik Gupta] from [GEC Idukki, IIIT Nagpur, IIT Indore] developed [Wearable Dog Deterrent Device] — [As solution that addresses the safety issue of children from aggressive stray dog attacks].
2nd Prize:
[Priya Kyal, Khushi Singh, Daksh Beniwal] from [IIT Ropar, Navrachana University, IIT Ropar] developed [First Aid solution for Snake Bite] — [A solution that prevents deaths from snakebites through an automated system that immobilizes limbs and applies necessary pressure allowing patients time for transit to a hospital].
3rd Prize:
[Harnoor, Ujjwal, Rishabh] from [IIT Jammu, NITK Suratkal & DTU] developed [Fish Storage Box For Fish Hold] — [Addressing the annual spoilage of 12 million tonnes of fish, with a view to enhance food security and economic resilience by improving storage methods].
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