ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,782, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for estimating body temperature" was invented by Ho Taik Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Woochul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Kyu Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Bok Soon Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Jiyong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), So Young Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gimin Park (Hanam-si, South Korea) and Seungjai Woo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating body temperature includes: a first temperatu...