Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Deep Trace - Illicit Drug Detection On Social Media Using Distilbert, Efficientnet, And Regex-Based Filtering

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641065095 A) filed by Srm Trp Engineering College on May 23, 2026, for Deep Trace - Illicit Drug Detection On Social Media Using Distilbert, Efficientnet, And Regex-Based Filtering.

Inventors include Abarna S; Adithya R M; Jagadeesh Kumar P; Kalpanadevi S; and Dr P. Sudhakaran.

The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.

Abstract: The present invention proposes an artificial intelligence based system called DeepTrace for detecting illicit drug promotion on social media platforms. The system analyzes both textual and visual content shared in social media posts using a multimodal approach. Text data is ...