MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611001656 A) filed by Nims University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Jan. 7, for 'a depression detection sytem.'
Inventor(s) include Bablu Malhotra; Dr. J. Anuradha; and Dr. R. Sanjeevi.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a system (100) for early detection of depression in a subject using multimodal data. The system (100) comprises a data acquisition module (110) including wearable sensing device (110a), mobile communication devices (110b) to capture physiological, acoustic, linguistic, behavioural, and environmental signals. The collected data is transmitted to a data processing module (120) that performs noise filtering, artifact removal, temporal alignment, and feature extraction to generate structured multimodal feature vectors. A depression identification module (130) comprising modality-specific GRU encoders (130a) and a cross-modal attention-based fusion network (130b) analyses the fused representation to generate both a categorical depression state and a continuous Depression Index score. A user interface module (140), including clinician workstations (140a) and mobile terminals (140b), presents interpretable outputs to clinicians or subjects. The system supports adaptive learning, federated privacy-preserving computation, and integration with electronic health records, enabling continuous, non-invasive, and clinically actionable mental health assessment."
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