MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521125607 A) filed by Mrudul Jane; and Dr. Seema Kadu, Nagpur, Maharashtra, on Dec. 12, 2025, for 'a system and a method for automated microhabitat characterization of ant mounds using integrated soil diagnostics in wardha district, maharashtra, india.'
Inventor(s) include Mrudul Jane; and Dr. Seema Kadu.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a system and method to characterize ant mound microhabitat through multi-domain soil diagnostics. The system is designed using a multi-depth electro-chemo-thermal probe array, which is designed to collect electrical, ionic, pH, and temperature properties from the substrate below the mound, as well as a vibration and trophic interaction sensing module to detect micro-movements related to the colony, an environmental and geo-reference sensing unit to collect soil and weather-related data about the mound, and a spectral mapping module that collects information about the mound's External Morphology and Vegetation Patterns. The processor that is coupled to these modules performs analytics on the excitation/response data, reconstructs the sub-surface micro-strata adaptively, and models predictive traits of the colony's health and ecological impacts. This method will facilitate real-time, high-resolution, and non-invasive characterization of habitat through fusion of multi-domain data to generate 4D ecological intelligence, and provides a solution that has advanced technology for soil-health assessment, ecological monitoring, and biodiversity analysis in the Wardha District of Maharashtra, India."
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