ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,638, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Infrared imaging device" was invented by Tomohiro Maegawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This infrared imaging device includes: an infrared transmission lens which collects infrared light emitted from an object; an infrared imaging element having a screen in which pixels for converting infrared light collected by the infrared transmission lens to electric signals are arranged in a two-dimensional array; a signal processing unit which converts electric signals from the infrared imaging element to digital signals; an optical characteristics correction ...