US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Jan. 28 for "Correlation of thermal satellite image data for generating thermal maps at high spatial resolution" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,237, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Correlation of thermal satellite image data for generating thermal maps at high spatial resolution" was invented by Max Gulde (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and a device for producing a thermal map of an area, wherein the thermal map is generated by a combination of two thermal images of different properties, and both thermal images comprise pixels associated with the area and have been recorded by satellites. The two thermal images are recorded at different times...