MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531130343 A) filed by Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, West Bengal, on Dec. 22, 2025, for 'fpga-accelerated iot system for real-time explainable genomic analysis using the smith-waterman algorithm.'
Inventor(s) include Sunetra Mukherjee; Tapas Pal; and Ganga Bhattacharjee.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides an XAI-IoT FPGA system and method for rapid, explainable genomic analysis. The system integrates a high-performance FPGA hardware accelerator with an IoT edge controller to execute Smith-Waterman sequence alignment locally at the point of data collection. The FPGA architecture features a systolic array for parallelized, pipelined computation and a novel interpretability module configured to generate metadata explaining the biological significance of alignment scores through influence mapping. By enabling real-time, transparent analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data in portable or remote diagnostic devices, the invention overcomes the latency and "black box" limitations of traditional cloud-based legacy systems while simultaneously improving energy efficiency, reliability, and on-site clinical decision-making capabilities."
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