MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541102516 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology Madras Iit Madras on October 24, 2025, for System And Method For Detection And Localization Of Drones.

Inventors include Srinivasan, Balaji; and V R, Ranjith.

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

Abstract: Disclosed is a system (102) and method (300) for detection and localization of drone(s) (101). The system includes Fiber-Optic Acoustic Sensors (FOAS) nodes (104), a Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) module (106), and processing circuitry (108). The FOAS nodes (104) sense airborne acoustic vibrations from a drone (101) and convert the airb...