Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Automated Crop Disease Detection Using Selective Layer Unfreezing' Filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology

MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122915 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 5, 2025, for 'automated crop disease detection using selective layer unfreezing.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Kanagaraj R; Mr. Dhruv Sharma; Mr. Ashish Chauhan; and Ms. Lingampalli Raaga Harshita.

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 computer-implemented method (100) for automated crop disease detection. The method includes receiving (102) a plant leaf image upload, preprocessing (104) the image to 224x224 pixels (224x224...