Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for “an Early Defect Prediction System For Assessing Defect Risk From Early-Stage Software Development Artifacts”

MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641073844 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on June 15, 2026, for “an Early Defect Prediction System For Assessing Defect Risk From Early-Stage Software Development Artifacts”.

Inventors include Shikhar Tripathi; Shresth Chordia; and Dr. G Jagadeesh.

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

Abstract: The present invention relates to an early defect prediction system and method for assessing software defect risk from early-stage artifacts, including natural language requirements and UML class diagrams. The system analyzes requirements using a hybrid approach combining semantic representation...