ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,032, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GIGA-IMAGE Technology Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Thermal image endoscope system" was invented by Chih-Ju Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Wei Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal image endoscope system includes a thermal image endoscope catheter and a control device. The thermal image endoscope catheter including: a tube body; a thermal image capturing assembly and a disposing component are positioned at a head part of the tube body, the thermal image capturing assembly captures a thermal image from a shooting area; the disposing component has a disposing area and th...