MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541133612 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on Dec. 30, 2025, for 'a system for automated textile characterization and classification.'

Inventor(s) include Mrs. Nagapriya Kamath K; and Dr. Roopa B Hegde.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein is a system (100) for automated textile characterization and classification. The system (100) comprises a textile imaging assembly (102) including a magnification unit (104) for fibre-level enlargement, an illumination unit (106) for controlled imaging illumination, a camera unit (108) to receive optical data, and an image sensor (110) to convert optical signals into digital image data. A communication network (114) connects the imaging assembly to a processing unit (118) comprising a data input module (120), a pre-processing module (122), a feature extraction module (124), a characterization module (126), a classification module (128), a quality assessment module (132), a hybrid fusion module (134), an adaptive illumination control module (136), a confidence scoring module (138), and an output module (140). A user device (142) having a user interface (144) receives and displays characterization reports, quality indices, defect alerts, and classification summaries, enabling interactive feedback."

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