MUMBAI, India, Jan. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511104617 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Oct. 30, 2025, for 'blockchain-based federated learning system for agriculture.'
Inventor(s) include Sami Anand; Dr. Sunaina Ahuja; Dr. Kailash Chandra Juglan; and Dr. Sorabh Lakhanpal.
The application for the patent was published on Dec. 12, under issue no. 50/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A blockchain-based federated learning system for agriculture, comprises a plurality of local data sources 101 associated with agricultural entities configured to train local machine learning models on agricultural data relevant to crop yield prediction, a federated learning coordinator 102 configured to aggregate model parameters received from the local data sources 101 without transferring raw data in order to generate a global model, a blockchain network 103 operably connected to the federated learning coordinator 102 and the local data sources 101 for storing metadata of model updates and training events to ensure transparency and traceability, a decentralized identity management module 104 employing blockchain-based Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials for authenticating federated learning participants and ensuring data provenance."
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