MUMBAI, India, June 16 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611054824 A) filed by Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing; and Indian Council Of Medical Research, Mohali, Punjab, on April 29, for 'non-invasive, handheld device for screening & classification of oral abnormalities and a method thereof.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Sanjay Madan; Sonia Dosanjh; Vijay Kumar Sharma; and Dr. Anand Gupta.

The application for the patent was published on June 5, under issue no. 23/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a non-invasive, handheld device for screening and classification of oral mucosal abnormalities and a method thereof, the device comprising a handheld enclosure 101 configured with an autofluorescence excitation module 201 to generate illumination at specific wavelength to induce autofluorescence within the oral tissue of a patient, an image capture module 202 configured to capture and transmit the fluorescence images to a computational unit 205 via a wireless communication module 204, the computational unit 205 integrated with a focus and stabilization mechanism to ensure precise capturing of images, an image quality assessment module to assess the quality of images and an AI based detection and classification module configured to process the quality approved images in view of detecting and classifying the oral abnormalities, an integrated digital display 207 to show the results."

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