MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641073832 A) filed by Nitte Deemed To Be University; Guruprasad; Vaishnavi Kamath; Vijeth Shetty; Aneesh K; and Royan Fernandes on June 15, 2026, for A System For Automated Analysis Of Urine Culture Images For Detection Of Urinary Tract Infection.

Inventors include Guruprasad; Vaishnavi Kamath; Vijeth Shetty; Aneesh K; and Royan Fernandes.

The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT Disclosed herein is a system (100) for automated analysis of urine culture images for detection of urinary tract infection comprising a user interface (102) integrated into a user device (104), a communication network (106), and a processing unit (108). The processing unit (108) includes a data input module (110), a data processing module (112) for preprocessing using grayscale conversion, resizing, normalization, noise reduction, and contrast enhancement, a feature extraction module (114) for learning non-linear bacterial patterns, and a region of interest extraction module (116) for isolating relevant regions. The system (100) further includes a classification module (118) forcategorizing images, an evaluation module (120) for determining confidence and assigning uncertain states, an analysis module (122) for generating diagnostic assessment, and an output module (124) for presenting results. The system enables accurate and automated detection of urinary tract infections.

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