ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,844, issued on July 29, was assigned to BLUEDROP MEDICAL Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Skin inspection device for identifying abnormalities" was invented by Christopher Murphy (County Mayo, Ireland), Gavin Corley (County Galway, Ireland) and Simon Kiersey (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin inspection device for identifying abnormalities. The device comprises a transparent panel having an inspection area. An array of temperature sensors are provided on the transparent panel to record the temperature of an area of skin of a target. One or more image capture devices are provided for capturing an image of the area of skin ...