MUMBAI, India, Aug. 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641097959 A) filed by Sri Eshwar College Of Engineering on August 12, 2026, for Ai-Enabled Uav System For Plastic Waste Detection And Gps-Based Geolocation For Manual Collection.

Inventors include Muthu Samy M; Navasree R S; and P Ganeshan.

The application for the patent was published on August 21, 2026, under issue no. 34/2026.

Abstract: The proposed invention presents an intelligent UAV-based system for detecting plastic waste and recording its geographical location for efficient manual collection. The UAV is equipped with a high-resolution RGB camera, GPS module, flight controller, onboard processing unit, and an AI-based object detection mode...