MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541134133 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on Dec. 31, 2025, for 'autonomous multi-metric leader election system for unmanned aerial vehicles.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Sharath Chandra H S; and Viha Trupthi S Pandit.

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: "Disclosed herein is an autonomous multi-metric leader election system (100), the system (100) comprises a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (102) to collect internal operational data, which further comprises a sensor (104) to sense the orientation and angular velocity, a co...