MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621042668 A) filed by Sage University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on April 2, for 'system and method for autonomous robotic laser based weed elimination.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Prashant Jain; Prof. Snehlata Mishra; Dr. Kuntal Barua; Aayush Hariyale; and Keshav Malakar.

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: "An autonomous robotic system (102) for laser-based weed elimination comprises an optical imaging system (104), a thermal sensor (106) configured to detect thermal signatures of plant targets, a laser (108) configured to emit thermal ...