MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051631 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on April 23, for 'adaptive urban flood prediction system using drainage degradation and dynamic thresholding.'
Inventor(s) include R. Sujatha; Khushi Agarwal; and Thanusha Siddaya Shetter.
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: "An adaptive urban flood prediction system (100) is disclosed. The system (100) comprises a data ingestion and preprocessing module configured to receive multi-source environmental and infrastructure data and to perform cleaning, temporal alignment, and spatial mapping. A micro-zone segmentation module partitions an urban region into a plurality of zones with assigned geospatial and infrastructure attributes. A hydrological modelling module computes expected discharge for each zone based on rainfall and runoff characteristics. An infrastructure drift computation module quantifies deviation between expected and observed performance using multiple degradation components. A recursive drift persistence module maintains degradation history across temporal instances. An adaptive threshold recalibration module dynamically adjusts flood thresholds based on drift and persistence. A risk computation module determines load ratios and estimates flood probability, and a decision module generates risk scores based on the estimated probability."
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