MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123276 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'explainable federated learning system for deceptive cyber defense.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. R. Kannadasan; Ms. Ashlesha Jai; and Ms. Nimisha Kumari.

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: "The present disclosure provides a cybersecurity system comprising a federated learning core (FLC) configured to coordinate distributed machine learning across multiple client nodes, wherein each client node is configured to train a local model on private data without transmitting raw data to other nodes, an explainable artificial intelligence engine operatively connected to the federated learning core and configured to generate human-interpretable explanations of threat detection decisions, a deceptive cyber defense layer integrated with the federated learning core and configured to deploy deceptive mechanisms that actively engage attackers, wherein the deceptive mechanisms are configured to collect behavioral intelligence data, and a feedback mechanism configured to incorporate the behavioral intelligence data into the federated learning core to enhance threat detection capabilities."

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