ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,473, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTFLOW INC. (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for measuring body temperature by recognizing the face" was invented by So Heun Ju (Gwangju, South Korea) and Kwang Myung Jeon (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face recognition body temperature measuring apparatus includes a communication module receiving a video image and a thermal image obtained by simultaneously imaging at least one target object from a camera module, a memory storing a body temperature measurement program for measuring a body temperature by using the video image and the thermal image, and a proc...