Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for A Calibrated Multimodal Fusion Approach For Early-Stage (stage 0–1) Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621057780 A) filed by Nishtha Garg on May 06, 2026, for A Calibrated Multimodal Fusion Approach For Early-Stage (stage 0–1) Diabetic Retinopathy Detection.

Inventors include Amruta Bhawarthi; Niyati Parmar; Nishtha Garg; Atharva Padwal; Nirmayee Ninawe; and Aditya Pallerla.

The application for the patent was published on July 03, 2026, under issue no. 27/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT The early diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is very important in clinical practice, but it is difficult to distinguish between Stage 0 (no DR) and Stage 1 (mild DR) based on early signs like microaneurysms, which are sparse and subtle. Most current research on DR focu...