MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541134133 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on Dec. 31, 2025, for 'autonomous multi-metric leader election system for unmanned aerial vehicles.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Sharath Chandra H S; and Viha Trupthi S Pandit.
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 an autonomous multi-metric leader election system (100), the system (100) comprises a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (102) to collect internal operational data, which further comprises a sensor (104) to sense the orientation and angular velocity, a communication unit (110) to establish a communication link, a processing unit (112) to process real-time data, which further comprises a data input module (114) to receive real-time data, a data processing module (116) to clean, normalize, and validate the received data, a leadership scoring module (118) to generate a final leadership score, a score exchange module (120) to exchange the generated leadership score, a candidate selection module (122) to select the highest leadership score, a consensus module (124) to facilitate agreement, a leader election finalization module (126) to finalize selection of the leader, a leader verification module (128) to verify the leader, an output module (130) to transmit the outputs."
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