MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531130343 A) filed by Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, West Bengal, on Dec. 22, 2025, for 'fpga-accelerated iot system for real-time explainable genomic analysis using the smith-waterman algorithm.'

Inventor(s) include Sunetra Mukherjee; Tapas Pal; and Ganga Bhattacharjee.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides an XAI-IoT FPGA system and method for rapid, explainable genomic analysis. The system integrates a high-performance FPGA hardware accelerator with an IoT edge controller to execute Smith-Waterma...