ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,170, issued on April 8, was assigned to The United States of America, Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Sensor agnostic temperature detection system" was invented by Aaron Boyd Cole (Bloomington, Ind.) and Marcin Stanislaw Malec (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature detection system and method for detecting a correlation between temperatures on a subject and a temperature reference is provided. One or more calibrated temperature reference devices, such as a Body Temperature Reference blackbody system is used with an emissive source detector, such as a Mid Wave Infrared (MWIR) or Long Wa...