MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641073767 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on June 14, 2026, for Quantum Byzantine Consensus Protocol For Adversary-Resilient Authentication In Autonomous Agricultural Drone Swarms.
Inventors include Jayashree; Aryan Hundia; Shlok Kumar Goenka; and Vijayashree J.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: The present invention discloses a Quantum Byzantine Consensus Protocol for adversary-resilient authentication in autonomous agricultural drone swarms. The apparatus comprises a quantum random number generation subsystem, an authentication verification subsystem, a distributed consensus engine, a hardware gating controller, a flight management processing unit, a physical actuation subsystem, and an inter-drone communication interface. Authentication tokens generated from a physical quantum entropy source are validated for distributed consensus participation. Execution authorization for swarm commands is determined through authenticated Byzantine consensus among participating drone nodes. A hardware gating controller physically withholds actuation control signals unless execution authorization is established. Where consensus fails or anomalous behavior is detected, physical signal suppression prevents unauthorized actuation. The disclosed invention provides cyber-physical enforcement of authenticated command execution in autonomous agricultural drone swarms. (FIG. 1)
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