MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122250 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'road surface condition detection system using smartphone sensors and machine learning.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Chandru Vignesh C; and Mr. Dwij Sharma.

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 method (100) for detecting road surface conditions. The method includes mounting (102) a smartphone having an accelerometer and GPS sensor on a vehicle, collecting (106) accelerometer data along X, Y, and Z axes while ...