MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421069145 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on Sept. 12, 2024, for 'method and system for seed genetic purity estimation and cross-pollination detection in agricultural fields.'

Inventor(s) include Mohite, Jayantrao; Sawant, Suryakant Ashok; Singh, Dineshkumar Jang Bahadur; Pandit, Ankur; and Pappula, Srinivasu.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Current approaches for cross pollination contamination detection mainly rely on field surveys that are generally costly and consumes lot of time. The genetic ...