US Patent Issued to FLIR Systems on Oct. 28 for "Variable sensitivity in infrared imaging systems and methods" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,193, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FLIR Systems AB (Taby, Sweden).

"Variable sensitivity in infrared imaging systems and methods" was invented by Tien C. Nguyen (Taby, Sweden) and Henning Hagman (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for variable sensitivity in infrared imaging. In one example, an infrared imaging system includes an infrared imager and a logic device. The infrared imager is configured to capture a first infrared image of a scene using a sensitivity setting. The logic device is configured to determine a temperature associated with the scene based on a second infrared image of the sce...