ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,452, issued on April 22, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Infrared processing system, infrared sensor system, infrared processing method, and program" was invented by Ryota Sudo (Aichi, Japan), Nayuta Minami (Fukui, Japan), Nobuaki Shimamoto (Fukui, Japan), Naoki Kobayashi (Fukui, Japan) and Shoya Kida (Shimane, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infrared processing system includes a first thermal image generating unit, an object extracting unit, a second thermal image generating unit, and an object temperature calculating unit. The first thermal image generating unit generates,...