MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621029350 A) filed by Marathwada Mitra Mandal's College Of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, on March 12, for 'generation of solar potential map by adopting deep learning based footprint extraction.'

Inventor(s) include Darshan Joshi; Dr. Swati Shekapure; and Dr. Shaialja B. Jadhav.

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 relates to a system and method for automated generation of solar potential maps by extracting suitable footprints (rooftops and open terrains) from high-resolution satellite imagery using deep learnin...