ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,231, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for reducing noise in image data" was invented by Axel Rumberg (Karlsruhe, Germany), Michael Frank (Bretten, Germany), Patrick Meyer (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany) and Tim Saup (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing noise in image data includes (i) providing image data, wherein the image data comprises at least one thermal image, wherein the image data results from a detection of at least one sensor, (ii) determining a temperature difference represented in the at least one thermal image based on ...