MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641009236 A) filed by National Institute Technology, Warangal, Telangana, on Jan. 29, for 'system and method for efficient multi-drone path planning and human detection.'

Inventor(s) include Dr Mettu Srinivas; Prof. P Radha Krishna; and Prof. RBV Subramanyam.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system and method for autonomous detection, path planning, and coordinated control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been proposed in the present invention for crisis management, search-and-rescue, and surveillance operation...