MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641049198 A) filed by Srm Institute Of Science And Technology, Ramapuram Campus; and Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 17, for 'smart agriculture systems: a machine learning and iot approach to sustainable farming.'

Inventor(s) include Gokulpriyan K; Dharani P; Kishore P; C. Kudiyarasudevi; and S. Kamaleswari.

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: "This invention discloses a federated multi-agent reinforcement learning (Fed-MARL) system configured to enable autonomous coordination of agricultural drone swarms acr...