ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,113, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai Univ. of T.C.M. (Shanghai).

"Method for monitoring temperature-induced deformation of components in intelligent moxibustion robot based on infrared spectroscopy" was invented by Chunyan Zhang (Shanghai), Chuting Wu (Shanghai), Yuan Gao (Shanghai) and Yunyi Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring temperature-induced deformation of components in an intelligent moxibustion robot based on infrared spectroscopy includes the following steps. Infrared spectral images and frequency spectra of a...