MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641025500 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on March 4, for 'a blockchain-integrated real-time civic anomaly detection and validation system and method.'

Inventor(s) include Santhosh Kumar S V N; and Vinut Naruni.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure proposes a blockchain-based system (100) that is configured for real-time detection, classification, geospatial tagging, decentralized media storage, and immutable validation of civic infrastructure anomalies through distributed ...