MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521131042 A) filed by Symbiosis International, Pune, Maharashtra, on Dec. 23, 2025, for 'system and method for rice variety classification using convolutional neural network architecture.'

Inventor(s) include Shreyas Rajendra Hole.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A computer-implemented system for classifying rice varieties from image data using convolutional neural networks is disclosed. The system comprises a memory storing executable instructions and a processor coupled to the memory configured to execute the instructions. The...