ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,845, issued on March 31, was assigned to Testo SE & Co. KGaA (Titisee-Neustadt, Germany).
"Method and device for contactless measurement of a temperature" was invented by Siegfried Stallmann (Bonndorf, Germany) and Gerd Heckelmann (Lenzkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for contactless measurement of a temperature, in particular pyrometer, preferably 1-point pyrometer. The measuring device (1) has a camera (4) for recording an image (7') of an environment (7) of a measurement spot (9) and a processor for ascertaining and outputting, in particular displaying, a location of the measurement spot in the im...