MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641043307 A) filed by Dayananda Sagar College Of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, on April 4, for 'a system and method for real-time pothole detection and severity assessment.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Ramya R S; Dr. Santanu Roy; Dr. Pushpa C N; Srivathsa Bhat; Sourabh S Bettad; Supreeth Devarushi; and Vasudev J B.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention discloses a hybrid quantum-classical framework for automated pothole-severity classification using deep convolutional feature extraction and variational quantum circu...