MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641115702 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on September 28, 2026, for A Method And System For Automated Jaggery Quality Grading Using Parameter Optimized Fuzzy C-Means Clustering With Independent Validation.

Inventors include Ilayaraja Venkatachalam; and Kathirvel N.

The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT The present invention relates to an automated, label-free system and method for grading jaggery quality using unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering. The system utilizes only two field-accessible measurements, namely sugar yield and jaggery colour, thereby elim...