G01J 5/48
Thermography
Official title: Thermography; Techniques using wholly visual means
G01J5/48 (Thermography) appears on 600 US grants and 745 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01J- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 47 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Operator assistance system25 Aug 2026US 12,718,581 B2AGCO International GmbH
- Substrate processing system and condition monitoring method25 Aug 2026US 12,721,098 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system and methods for capturing radiometric thermography data of a target object from a moving vehicle18 Aug 2026US 12,709,223 B1Fast Forward LLC
- Dimensional fluid mapping systems with multi-frequency excitation18 Aug 2026US 12,710,314 B2Robert Bosch GmbH
- Hotspot monitoring system for superconducting device18 Aug 2026US 12,710,316 B2Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Detection system and detection method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309353 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Tire failure determination method and tire failure determination apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309584 A1Bridgestone Corporation
- Tire failure determination method and tire failure determination apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309657 A1Bridgestone Corporation
- Systems and methods for leak detection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298759 A1Dianomix Inc.
- System, apparatus and method for providing temperature24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287439 A1Hanwha Vision Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pyrometer multimeter143US 6,095,682 AOmega Engineering, Inc. · 2000
- Composite visible/thermal-infrared imaging apparatus136US 4,751,571 AGeneral Electric Company · 1988
- Optical temperature measurement technique utilizing phosphors121US 4,448,547 ALuxtron Corporation · 1984
- Portable digital infrared thermography system116US 5,637,871 AComputational Systems, Inc. · 1997
- Thermally based system and method for detecting counterfeit drugs104US 8,186,874 B2Semi Conductor Devices—An Elbit Systems-Rafael Partnership · 2012