MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641079049 A) filed by Sr University on June 25, 2026, for A Multimodal, Self-Supervised, Federated And Explainable Framework For Crop Disease Detection With Edge-Optimized Deployment.

Inventors include Lalitha Manglaram; and Dr. Sudersan Behera.

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

Abstract: A MULTIMODAL, SELF-SUPERVISED, FEDERATED AND EXPLAINABLE FRAMEWORK FOR CROP DISEASE DETECTION WITH EDGE-OPTIMIZED DEPLOYMENT The present invention relates to a multimodal, self-supervised, federated and explainable framework for crop disease detection with edge-optimized deployment. The framework comprises a s...