MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641043512 A) filed by Sree Chaitanya College Of Engineering, Karimnagar, Telangana, on April 6, for 'underwater image enhancement via minimal color loss and locally adaptive contrast enhancement.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Cheruku Sandesh Kumar; D Venu; Avunoori Rajitha; and Enagandula Mounika.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Underwater images typically suffer from color deviations and low visibility due to the wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering. To deal with these degradation issues, we propose an efficient ...