MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123628 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on Dec. 8, 2025, for 'intelligent multi-modal system for automated queen bee detection using deep learning and audio analysis.'

Inventor(s) include Prathwini; and Rithika B K.

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: "Disclosed herein is an intelligent multi-modal system (100) for automated queen bee detection and hive health monitoring, comprising an imaging unit (102) configured to capture static images and video streams, an audio capture unit (104) configured to record audio signals fr...