ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,662, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Correction apparatus, correction system, correction method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Ayumi Miyoshi (Tokyo), Makoto Kataoka (Tokyo), Shihono Mochizuki (Tokyo) and Ryota Yushina (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a correction apparatus comprising: a calculation unit configured to acquire a body surface temperature of a first person who has stayed outdoors for a predetermined time or longer from a video image captured by a thermal camera and calculating, on the basis of a result of measurement of a body temperature of the...