MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123240 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'quantum-enhanced convolutional neural network for image classification.'

Inventor(s) include P Balakrishnan; A Anny Leema; and Svetanshu Gupta Veloor.

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 quantum-enhanced convolutional neural network system for image classification. The system includes a quantum circuit processor (1) configured to process image data, where the quantum circuit processor includes qubits co...