MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641098818 A) filed by Manipal Academy Of Higher Education on August 14, 2026, for A System And Method For Visual Feature Compression And Similarity Optimisation Of Digital Images.

Inventors include Bhoomika S V; Deepika C; and Dinesh Rao B.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: A visual feature compression and similarity optimization system and a method, comprising a memory coupled to a processor, the memory storing a feature extraction engine, compressed reference feature vectors, and instructions executable by the processor to: receive and normalize a digital image and a referenc...