MUMBAI, India, Jan. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511102484 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Oct. 24, 2025, for 'device for detection of surface label defects on bottles.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Vishal Sarin; Mohit Prakram; Sanjay Sood; and Dr. Namita Kaur.

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 device for detection of surface label defects on bottles comprising, a convolutional neural network architecture 101 incorporating a lightweight C3 module and depthwise separable convolution to reduce model parameters, a feature fusion structure 102 employing a weighted bidirectional means pyramid network with cross-level multi-scale connections to enhance multi-scale feature fusion, an optimized loss calculation unit 103 configured to replace conventional loss calculations to improve detection accuracy, wherein the system achieves detection performance comparable to baseline models with reduced parameter count and model size, and attains precision on the bottle surface defect dataset."

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