ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,532, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HORIBA Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Radiation thermometer, temperature measurement method, and temperature measurement program" was invented by Sho Fujino (Kyoto, Japan), Naoyuki Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasuo Furukawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation thermometer includes two infrared detectors and a temperature calculator. The infrared detectors each have a predetermined measurement visual field and detect the amount of infrared rays incident from the measurement visual field. The temperature calculator calculates the temperature of a measurement target region based on the...