US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Sept. 2 for "Body temperature estimation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,795, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Body temperature estimation device" was invented by Shin Toyota (Tokyo) and Kazuyoshi Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimator estimates the body temperature of a subject from the temperatures of the inner corners of the eyes in the temperature information obtained from a measurement result of an infrared sensor. The infrared sensor two-dimensionally measures the distribution of infrared rays radiated from the surface of the face of the subject including the inner corners of the eyes of the subject, and the estimator obtains a tempera...