MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611050690 A) filed by Thapar Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Patiala, Punjab, on April 21, for 'real-time litter detection system for moving vehicles.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Himika Sharma; Dr. Raghav B Venkataramaiyer; Prince Garg; Dheeraj Sharma; Garvit Gupta; Yashna Sabharwal; and Lakshay Singhal.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides a real-time litter detection system for moving vehicles. The system uses roadside cameras and frame-by-frame processing with a YOLO-nano object detection model...