MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541124706 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on Dec. 10, 2025, for 'an ai-powered herb identification and medicinal use suggestion system.'

Inventor(s) include Rahul Vasantha Poojari; and Raksha V Shetty.

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 AI-powered herb identification and medicinal use suggestion system (100) comprises an image input module (102) configured to receive a user-provided image of a plant or plant leaf. The system also includes an image preprocessing module (104) configured to normalize, resize, and augment the received image. The system also includes an AI classification module (106) configured to generate a predicted species index. The system also includes a botanical knowledge base integration module (108) configured to retrieve medicinal uses, toxicity information, contraindications, and regional ethnobotanical names. The system also includes a medicinal use suggestion module (110) configured to generate a plant-specific output. The system also includes a visualization and user interface module (112) configured to display the predicted species probability distribution, the retrieved botanical knowledge, and one or more medicinal use suggestions. The system also includes a data processing module (114) comprising one or more processors."

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