Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for An Explainable Deep Learning System For Plant Disease Diagnosis Using Efficientnet-B3 And Gradcam

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611074480 A) filed by Manipal University Jaipur on June 16, 2026, for An Explainable Deep Learning System For Plant Disease Diagnosis Using Efficientnet-B3 And Gradcam.

Inventors include Ayush Anand; and Nandini Babbar.

The application for the patent was published on July 31, 2026, under issue no. 31/2026.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an explainable plant disease diagnosis system for automated detection of plant diseases from leaf images. The system comprises a pre- processing module for receiving and normalizing plant leaf images, a disease classification engine based on an EfficientNet-B3 neural network trained through a two- stag...