ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,300, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and system for controlling a guard tour of a thermal camera" was invented by Jorgen Jonsson (Lund, Sweden) and Thomas Winzell (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a guard tour of a thermal camera, wherein the thermal camera is a pan-tilt camera or a pan-tilt-zoom camera, comprises the steps of: obtaining a guard tour comprising a plurality of views of an area or facility and a sequence of movements and/or view times of the thermal camera for traversing the plurality of views; controlling the thermal camera to traverse the plurality...