MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122798 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 5, 2025, for 'ensemble deep learning system for automated pothole detection.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. E. S. Madhan; Mr. Divyansh Bajpai; and Mr. Bhavishya Rajput.

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 automated pothole detection that includes a data acquisition module configured to receive road surface images from at least one input source, an ensemble neural network architecture having at least two differen...