MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531134213 A) filed by NIT, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on Dec. 31, 2025, for 'a system and a method for staging oral cancer from histopathology images.'

Inventor(s) include Alka Kumari; Danish Ali Khan; Ashok Kumar Mehta; B Ramachandra Reddy; and Jitesh Pradhan.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a system and method for automated staging of oral cancer from digital histopathology images are disclosed. the system comprises an image acquisition module for receiving histopathology images of oral tissue sa...