MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531130242 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Patna, Bihar, on Dec. 22, 2025, for 'bridge pier live bed scour depth predictor with alert generation.'

Inventor(s) include Prakash, Satya; and Das, Bhabani Shankar.

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: "The present disclosure provides a system (100) and method (300) for predicting live bed scour depth around a bridge pier. The system (100) includes a portable device (102) having a processor (104), a memory (106) storing scour measurement data and scour depth relationship, a norm...