MUMBAI, India, Jan. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511102484 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Oct. 24, 2025, for 'device for detection of surface label defects on bottles.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Vishal Sarin; Mohit Prakram; Sanjay Sood; and Dr. Namita Kaur.

The application for the patent was published on Dec. 12, under issue no. 50/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A device for detection of surface label defects on bottles comprising, a convolutional neural network architecture 101 incorporating a lightweight C3 module and depthwise separable convolution to reduce model parameters, a feature fusion structure 102 employin...