MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122148 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'privacy-preserving mental health diagnosis system using federated learning.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Ruby Dass; Arihant Bharadwaj; Shreyas Tiwary; and Aakansh Thakur.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a privacy-preserving mental health system (300) that includes a federated learning infrastructure (302) with a federated server (304) and a plurality of client devices (312). The federated server (304) inc...