MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641124066 A) filed by Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation on October 16, 2026, for Explainable Ai-Driven Hybrid Cnn-Transformer Framework For Robust And Real-Time Facial Emotion Recognition.

Inventors include Thota Naga Sri Satya; Boppana Vijay Chowdary; and Talasila Taraka Rajeswar Rao.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: A real-time facial emotion recognition system (100) detects and tracks faces in camera or video frames (106), aligns and pre-processes each face (108), and identifies occluded facial regions (118). A hybrid model (110) extracts a 6 x 6 feature map with residual ...