MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123284 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'ai-powered dark pattern detection system for web interfaces.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Sivaprakash S; Mr. Deepam Purkayastha; and Mr. Kumar Aryan.

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 a system for detecting dark patterns in web interfaces. The system includes a data extraction module configured to extract content from web interfaces, the data extraction module having at least one of a web scraping component...