MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631050626 A) filed by Jis College Of Engineering, Nadia, West Bengal, on April 21, for 'ai-driven root zone climate pods for precision agriculture.'

Inventor(s) include Debojit Dutta; Pragya Das; Debanjan Choubey; Dr. Sayan Chakraborty; Dr. Monish Mukul Das; and Subhadip Goswami.

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: "An AI-driven precision agriculture system is disclosed, comprising a plurality of subterranean sensor pods configured for the real-time monitoring of root zone parameters including O_{2}, CO_{2}, temperature, pH, and moistu...