MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042243 A) filed by Chennai Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 2, for 'quantum acoustic multi-cancer detection and triage system using commodity smartphone microphones.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. S. Pavithra; Mr. G. Muthupandi; Mrs. R. Bhavani; Mrs. Kanimozhi S; Mrs. Mariyammal M; Mrs. Dharshini S; and Mr. Vishnu B.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A smartphone-based multi-cancer detector and triage are unveiled as an invasive process. It uses a smartphone microphone, which is a commodity, to capture acoustic responses generated when mechanical taps are hit on specified parts of the body like the neck, chest, abdomen, back, and limbs. These signals are recorded and then processed to come up with normal audio measures, such as mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, and physics-based measures of tissue, such as approximate sound speed, frequency-dependent attenuation, acoustic impedance, nonlinearity, and resonance properties. These elements are then pooled into a structured feature representation and trained using a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning framework that employs quantum kernel classifiers, variational quantum circuits, and classical models in an ensemble form. The system provides a cancer risk score and can identify a probable type of cancer from a known multi-cancer library, as well as suggest a proposed stage of the disease."
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