ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,292, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and system for identifying reflections in thermal images" was invented by Thomas Winzell (Lund, Sweden) and Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a reflection in a first thermal image captured by a thermal image sensor and, a second image is captured by a visible light sensor, near infrared sensor, or short-wave infrared sensor having a field of view which overlaps a field of view of the thermal image. A relationship between coordinates in the thermal image and the second image is determined. A first object is detected in a ...