MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122147 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'dual-environment waste detection system using convolutional neural networks and yolo architecture.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. P. Baskaran; Mr. Anant Mohan; and Waghmare Aayushi Avinash.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a dual-environment waste detection system comprising a convolutional neural network module (FIG. 1) configured to classify underwater waste objects from underwater image data, a YOLO archi...