MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541067598 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on July 15, 2025, for 'optimized grid based interpretable self organizing map with a coverage based performance metric.'

Inventor(s) include Ramu, Palaniappan; and Khalid, Mohd Aman.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Techniques for enhancement of initial neuron grid selection for interpretable 5 Self-Organizing Map (iSOM) are described. The method introduces a Distance Coverage Score (DCS) and Data Inclusion Score (DIS) to assess pre-training neuron layou...