MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641047985 A) filed by Vels Institute Of Science, Technology And Advanced Studies, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 15, for 'system and method for automated cashew nut grading using hybrid image processing and deep learning.'

Inventor(s) include S. Muthukumaran; S. Murali; B. Kamatchy; and N. Kalaichelvi.

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 system (100) and method (300) for automated grading of cashew nuts are disclosed. The system (100) comprises a data acquisition module (101) configured to receive input image data from an imaging dev...