US Patent Issued to FLIR Systems on May 26 for "Distance compensation for thermal imaging temperature measurement of inner canthus systems and methods" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,889, issued on May 26, was assigned to FLIR Systems AB (Taby, Sweden).

"Distance compensation for thermal imaging temperature measurement of inner canthus systems and methods" was invented by Henning Hagman (Taby, Sweden), Tien C. Nguyen (Taby, Sweden), Petra Maretic (Taby, Sweden) and Katrin Strandemar (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are disclosed to provide for improved human body temperature detection using thermal images of an inner canthus. In one example, a method includes capturing a thermal image of a human being using a thermal imager. The method also includes determining an uncompensated tempe...