ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,987, issued on April 7, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Forehead temperature measurement system with high accuracy" was invented by Po-Wei Yu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Yi-Chung Chen (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Ting-Yang Chang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Chih-Ming Sun (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Kai-Shun Chen (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Yen-Chang Chu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a forehead temperature measurement system including an image sensor, a thermal sensor and a processor. The image sensor is used to output an image frame. The thermal sensor is used to...