MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122097 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'deep learning-based smart waste segregation system employing yolov11.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Anand Bihari; Harsh Vinayak Sangrulkar; and Sudharma Warune.

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 intelligent waste segregation system comprising an object detection model trained on waste images to classify waste items into multiple categories, an image processing module configured to receive and prepare inpu...