MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641075846 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on June 19, 2026, for A Selective Feature-Layer And Soft-Label Fused Knowledge Distillation System For Lightweight Medical Image Classification.

Inventors include Arumuga Arun R; Priyanka N; Sabarinathan P; and Manushi Swapnil Bombaywala.

The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.

Abstract: A Selective Feature-Layer and Soft-Label Fused Knowledge Distillation system (100) for lightweight medical image classification is disclosed. The system (100) comprises a preprocessing module configured to process medical image data, a teacher neural network conf...