MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122148 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'privacy-preserving mental health diagnosis system using federated learning.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Ruby Dass; Arihant Bharadwaj; Shreyas Tiwary; and Aakansh Thakur.
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 privacy-preserving mental health system (300) that includes a federated learning infrastructure (302) with a federated server (304) and a plurality of client devices (312). The federated server (304) includes an aggregation engine (308) configured to perform secure aggregation of encrypted model updates received from the plurality of client devices (312). Each client device (312) includes a local model (314) configured to perform on-device training using mental health text data stored locally on the client device (312) and a privacy engine (316) configured to apply differential privacy mechanisms to model updates generated by the local model (314). The system includes a privacy protection layer (320) with a differential privacy module (322) configured to add calibrated noise to the model updates and a secure aggregation module (324) configured to implement cryptographic protocols for secure aggregation of the model updates."
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