ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,893, issued on July 7, was assigned to Melexis Technologies NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

"Method of digitally processing a plurality of pixels and temperature measurement apparatus" was invented by Wouter Reusen (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Luc Buydens (Tessenderlo, Belgium) and Adrian Hill (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of digitally processing a plurality of pixels of an image captured using an array of sensing pixels of an optical sensor device. The method comprises identifying a measurement pixel of the plurality of pixels corresponding to a measurement point on a target to be measured. The method then comprises iden...