MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621028217 A) filed by Dr. Vishwanath Karad Mit World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, on March 10, for 'a system and method to eliminate and eradicate weed.'
Inventor(s) include Atul Marotrao Elgandelwar; and Chaitanya Girish Burande.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a system (100) for eliminating and eradicating weeds in an agricultural field is disclosed. The system (100) comprises a detection module (210) coupled with a processor (204) and including a vision unit configured to capture real-time agricultural field images and identify and differentiate weeds from crops. A navigation module (212) coupled with the processor (204) comprises a sensor fusion arrangement configured to enable autonomous row-based traversal of the agricultural field. A positioning module (216) is configured to laterally and vertically align a rotary auger weed removal tool of an extraction module (214) with positional coordinates of detected weeds. The extraction module (214) is configured to penetrate soil and mechanically uproot detected weeds. A coordination module (218) generates synchronized control signals to regulate locomotion, alignment, actuation, and autonomous weed removal operations in real time."
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