MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641050014 A) filed by Sreenidhi Institute Of Science And Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, on April 20, for 'real-time automated weed detection and removal system.'
Inventor(s) include Kalluri Ashritha; Joshitha Boppana; Ramshetty Sai Nipun; Shailendra Alladi; and SPV Subba Rao.
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: "Disclosed herein is a real-time automated weed detection and removal system (100), the system (100) comprises a plurality of sensing units (102) to sense real-time data, an actuation unit (104) for targeted weed removal, a communication network (106) configured to establish a communication link, a processing unit (108) configured to process real-time data, which further comprises a data input module (110) for receiving data, a pre-processing module (112) for filtering, normalizing, and reducing noise, a plant analysis module (114) for extracting plant characteristics, a row alignment detection module (116) identifies crop row patterns and deviations, a classification module (118) classifies plants into crop class and weed class, a localization module (120) determines precise spatial coordinates of weeds, an adaptive actuation control module (122) configured to control execution of a weed removal strategy, an output module (126) transmits control signals and processed data for enabling real-time weed removal and system monitoring."
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