MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611050690 A) filed by Thapar Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Patiala, Punjab, on April 21, for 'real-time litter detection system for moving vehicles.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Himika Sharma; Dr. Raghav B Venkataramaiyer; Prince Garg; Dheeraj Sharma; Garvit Gupta; Yashna Sabharwal; and Lakshay Singhal.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides a real-time litter detection system for moving vehicles. The system uses roadside cameras and frame-by-frame processing with a YOLO-nano object detection model to detect vehicles and classify litter being discarded. If littering is confirmed, a License Plate Recognition (LPR) module isolates and reads the vehicle's license plate using OCR. The system generates an incident record containing the license plate number, timestamp, video evidence, and location data, and stores it in a relational database. An automated notification module then sends incident details via SMTP to vehicle owners and enforcement authorities. The system supports continuous monitoring and provides data insights for identifying littering hotspots."
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