MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641108532 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on September 10, 2026, for Conductor Structural Signature-Based Electricity Theft Identification System And Method.

Inventors include Dr. Harshita Patel; Vedansh Gupta; and Siddharth Goutam Kumar.

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

Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a system (100) for identifying unauthorised electricity theft in a power distribution network (120). The system (100) acquires mechanical and electrical telemetry associated with monitored conductor segments (130), generates a Conductor Structural Signature Vector (CSSV),...