MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641124479 A) filed by St. Joseph'S Institute Of Technology; V. Nithin; M. Nataraj; and G. Mahalakshmi on October 17, 2026, for A Multimodal Deep Vision-Tabular Fusion Approach For Real-Time Sugarcane Disease And Pest Management.

Inventors include St. Joseph'S Institute Of Technology; V. Nithin; M. Nataraj; and G. Mahalakshmi.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: Early recognition of sugarcane diseases and insect pests is vital to reduce crop losses and ensure field management in time. Although deep learning methods have significantly contributed to the automation of crop diagnosis, ex...