MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531132751 A) filed by Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, West Bengal, on Dec. 28, 2025, for 'feature selection and classification using hybrid nature inspired algorithm.'

Inventor(s) include Mr. Sabyasachi Mukherjee; Mrs. Shatabdi Mondal; Dr. Bhaskar Roy; and Mr. Ayan Chowdhury.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This invention presents a simultaneous clustering and feature selection algorithm that integrates the Firefly Algorithm with K-Means clustering. The method, termed FKM_FS, optimizes cluster formation while selecting...