MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511113441 A) filed by UPES, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on Nov. 18, 2025, for 'a system and method for ai/ml-based integrated water management and disease prevention in paddy cultivation.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Nadeem Yousuf Khanday; and Harvijay Singh.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A sensor network (101) comprising soil moisture, temperature, humidity, pH, and rain sensors arranged in clusters per a unit disc graph model is used to monitor a critical paddy cultivation zone during a 45-day post-transplantation period. The system ...