ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,381, issued on June 30, was assigned to National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method and system for non-contact temperature measurement of spot on target object" was invented by Che-Chih Tsao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Guo-Sing Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, which is applied for non-contact temperature measurement of a spot on a target object, includes the following steps: image a thermal image of a target area on the target object and projecting the thermal image to an image plane; select an image spot in the image plane corresponding to the spot to allow corresponding light rays to pass through...