MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621030059 A) filed by Sage University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on March 12, for 'portable handheld apparatus and method for agricultural pest risk assessment.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Prashant Jain; Dr. Mukesh Kumar Yadav; Shraddha Tripathi; and Satish Sharma.
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: "A portable handheld apparatus for agricultural pest risk assessment comprises a sensor probe assembly with an extendable structure having retracted and extended positions, wherein a temperature sensor is positioned at a distal end of the extendable structure. A hardware processor acquires temperature data from the temperature sensor, compares the temperature data against stored pest risk threshold parameters for agricultural pest species to determine risk levels, and generates a graphical risk assessment output using color-coded graphical indicators. In the extended position, the temperature sensor is spatially separated from heat-generating electronic components including the hardware processor by a distance to achieve thermal isolation. The extendable structure comprises a material having thermal conductivity of 15 to 20 watts per meter-kelvin, providing a thermal conduction barrier enabling accurate ambient temperature measurement despite heat generation within the apparatus, thereby facilitating on-demand pest risk assessment during agricultural field visits."
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