MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123213 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'ai-driven aircraft maintenance system with real-time defect detection and predictive analytics.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Muchenedi Hari Kishor; Gaurav Chauhan; and Priyamvad Singh.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides an AI-driven aircraft maintenance system including a computer vision module configured to process aircraft structural images using an object detection model to identify structural defects inc...