MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641001822 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 7, for 'bird monitoring and deterrence system and method thereof.'
Inventor(s) include G. Logeswari; K. Tamilarasi; Dhanush Sriram G; and Madhav Adithya S.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (100) for avian target monitoring and deterrence can include: an object detection module (110) disposed on one or more stationary platforms and autonomous aerial drones (120) to detect avian targets in real time within a protected environment; a control unit (112) operatively coupled with the object detection module (110), configured to receive detected data, classify avian targets via a machine-learning engine to identify species, estimate flock size, predict flight trajectories, and generate a deterrence command; a fleet of autonomous aerial drones (120-N) configured to operate cooperatively in a coordinated swarm formation using swarm-intelligence protocols to track, pursue, and deter avian targets in real time across expansive areas; a swarm control module (114) to assign operational roles, enable inter-drone communication, and coordinate swarm manoeuvring; and a deterrence module (120D) to execute non-lethal multi-modal deterrence actions to disrupt, disperse, and redirect approaching avian targets without physical harm."
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