MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631015294 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Patna, Bihar, on Feb. 11, for 'unmanned aerial vehicle with concurrent processing for structural defect detection.'

Inventor(s) include Chandan, Swet; Choubey, Vikas; and Upadhyay, Vikas.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides an unmanned aerial vehicle (100) for structural defect detection and a method (300) for concurrent flight control and image processing during aerial inspection operations. The unmanned aerial vehicle (100) includes a frame (...