MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521131046 A) filed by Symbiosis International, Pune, Maharashtra, on Dec. 23, 2025, for 'lightweight deep learning system for feature extraction in pomegranate crop imaging.'

Inventor(s) include Mrs. Mrunal Aware; Dr. Deepak S. Dharrao; Mrs. Madhuri Dharrao; and Dr. Anupkumar Bongale.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a lightweight deep learning system (100) and method (200) for feature extraction and classification in pomegranate crop imaging. The system (100) comprises an image acquisition unit (...