ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,632, issued on March 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Thermal image processing device, thermal image processing module, thermal image processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Kenichiro Nosaka (Osaka, Japan), Aki Yoneda (Hyogo, Japan), Shinichi Shikii (Nara, Japan) and Mototaka Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal image processing device includes: an acquirer that acquires a thermal image from a thermal image sensor; a first processor that performs, on a high temperature pixel indicating a temperature higher than a first temperature amo...