MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611099453 A) filed by Graphic Era Deemed To Be University on August 18, 2026, for A System And Method For Root-Zone Acoustic Drought Detection, Irrigation Verification, And Self- Calibration.

Inventors include Dhruv Agarwal; and Mohd. Rehan Ghazi.

The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.

Abstract: The invention relates to precision irrigation and plant stress monitoring using root-zone acoustics. An Acoustic Emission Sensor Node (10) having a piezoelectric transducer (12) coupled to a waveguide probe detects ultrasonic acoustic-emission events associated with xylem cavitation in a sub-soil root...