MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122084 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'high resolution building footprint maps for disaster management and urban planning using machine learning.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Jabanjalin Hilda J; Dr. Surendar M; Mr. A Anirudh Bharadwaj; and Mr. Sayan Mitra.

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 generating high-resolution building footprint maps from satellite imagery. The system includes a satellite imagery input module (FIG. 1) configur...