ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,486, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZHEJIANG PIXFRA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Devices and methods for temperature measurement" was invented by Xiaonan Wang (HangZhou, China), Lingrui Kong (Hangzhou, China) and Fei Xue (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for temperature measurement, includes a blackbody configured to radiate a specified temperature, an infrared thermal imaging camera configured to measure a temperature of a target surface of the blackbody and a temperature of an object and at least one processor configured to calibrate the temperature of the object based on the specified temperat...