ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,940, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FLIR Systems AB (Taby, Sweden).

"Dual-band temperature detection systems and methods" was invented by Austin A. Richards (Goleta, Calif.), Marcel Tremblay (Goleta, Calif.), Jeffrey D. Frank (Goleta, Calif.) and Andres Prieto-Moreno (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include an infrared camera configured to capture an infrared image of a scene, a visible-light camera configured to capture a visible-light image of the scene, and a logic device configured to simultaneously capture a pair of images of the scene comprising the infrared image of the scene and the vis...