MUMBAI, India, May 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202321074789 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on Nov. 2, 2023, for 'method and system for iris segmentation.'

Inventor(s) include Charaka, Vinayak Kumar; Chalamala, Srinivasa Rao; and Ponnapalli, Seshu Sri.

The application for the patent was published on May 9, under issue no. 19/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In the Iris based biometric recognition systems, iris needs to be segmented before comparison and hence iris segmentation is a crucial process in iris based biometric recognition systems. Existing techniques are unable to segment iris due to occlusions and require complex ...