MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641047772 A) filed by Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, on April 15, for 'real-time fake news detection platform with automated web scraping and ml-based prediction.'

Inventor(s) include S. Arunadevi; M. Harrish; M. Kaliraja; and K. Esakki Muthu.

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: "A real-time fake news detection platform is disclosed, comprising an automated web scraping engine, a three-tier source verification architecture, a dual-model natural language processing prediction engine, a PIB fact-check cross-...