ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,116, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIRAMAI HEALTH ANALYTIX PVT. LTD (Bangalore, India).

"System and method for identifying errors in positioning of a subject for capturing a thermal image" was invented by Siva Teja Kakileti (Kakinada, India) and Geetha Manjunath (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying errors associated with subject positioning in a thermal image of a subject and determining, applying a positional adjustment for adaptive positioning of the subject for capturing a new adjusted thermal image. The method includes (i) receiving an initial thermal image of body of a subject, (ii) automa...