ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,223, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Fast Forward Inc. (Kearney, Neb.).

"Vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system and methods for capturing radiometric thermography data of a target object from a moving vehicle" was invented by Dusty Layne Birge (Kearney, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system are disclosed. The vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system utilizes a multi-directional radiometric thermal camera with multiple thermal cameras which is triggered automatically, thereby making image capture during motion of the vehicle possible by a single operator driving ...