US Patent Issued to Seek Thermal on March 31 for "Noise reduction and feature enhancement for a thermal imaging camera" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,956, issued on March 31, was assigned to Seek Thermal Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Noise reduction and feature enhancement for a thermal imaging camera" was invented by Daniel Bode (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Brian Nehring (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Sofia Hamrin (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and William J. Parrish (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal cameras, particularly less elaborate inexpensive designs, may deliver high temperature resolution at the expense of less clear displayed images. For many low visibility uses, such as firefighting, it may be advantageous to sacrifice some temperature detail for clarity and objec...