MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051590 A) filed by Bgs College Of Engineering And Technology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, on April 22, for 'a method and system for generating a feature map for retinal images.'

Inventor(s) include Ravikumar Guralamata Krishnegowda; Sampath Subbe Gowda; Chethan Hirikythanahalli Venkatesh; and Manjula Gangadhariah.

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: "Retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma are major causes of vision loss, wherein conventional diagnostic approaches are limited by noise sensitivity, class imbalance, and i...