MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641017446 A) filed by Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, on Feb. 17, for 'edge-deployed yolov7 crop and weed detection system using raspberry pi for offline agricultural image inference.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Narra Dhanalakshmi.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses an edge-based weed detection and crop classification system for agricultural field images using a YOLOv7 object detection model deployed on a Raspberry Pi (102a). The...