ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,498, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to XIRIS AUTOMATION INC. (Burlington, Canada).

"Thermography measurements in heating process using pseudocalibration of thermal images" was invented by John Stevenson (Oakville, Canada), Gregory Michael Cooke (Burlington, Canada), Cameron Serles (Oakville, Canada) and Patricio F. Mendez (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a cooling rate of molten material uses a single thermal image of a heating process having a known pixel speed, and identifies a first pixel set having a first known temperature, a second pixel set having a second known temperature and a pixel dis...