MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541124380 A) filed by Vishnu Institute Of Technology, Kovvada, Andhra Pradesh, on Dec. 10, 2025, for 'hybrid cnn-transformer architecture for enhanced skin cancer classification.'

Inventor(s) include Abdul Rahman Shaik; and K. Kiran.

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 invention discloses a hybrid deep-learning architecture that integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Transformer-based self-attention mechanisms for accurate classification of skin cancer from dermoscopic images. The system includes preprocessing oper...