MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611080662 A) filed by Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun on June 30, 2026, for A Decentralized Multi-Agent Swarm Intelligence System And Method For Consensus-Driven Agricultural Decision Making.
Inventors include Pragya Goswamy; Vartika Agarwal; and Gagan Bansal.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of agricultural decision support and discloses a decentralized multi-agent swarm intelligence system (100) and corresponding method for achieving consensus-driven recommendations. The system (100) comprises a plurality of autonomous software agents (120) instantiated on low-bandwidth devices to perform asynchronous local decision making and stigmergic signalling. Each agent (120) includes a local knowledge module for storing farm-specific parameters, a decision evaluation module for computing a local preference vector via a multi-criteria utility function and pheromone intensities from a shared digital environment (160), a swarm interaction module for depositing, sensing and evaporating virtual pheromone increments, and an adaptive trust and learning module for updating trust coefficients by reinforcement learning. A convergence controller monitors pheromone distribution stability and signals finalization of collective recommendations upon meeting a predefined variance threshold.
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