ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,232, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rayprus Technology (Foshan) Co. Ltd. (Foshan, China).

"Thermal imaging device" was invented by Hsiang-Chieh Yu (NewTaipei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Yuan Shih (NewTaipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal imaging device includes a metalens and a thermal image sensor. The metalens is configured to adjust incident light into beams of polarized light having different polarization directions, and to converge and emit the beams of polarized light. The thermal image sensor is on an output side of the metalens. The thermal image sensor is configured to receive the beams of polarized light havi...