ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,980, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Aaron Fenster (London, Canada).

"Wearable 3D ultrasound-based whole breast imaging system" was invented by Aaron Fenster (London, Canada), Jeffrey Scott Bax (Lucan, Canada), David Ronald Tessier (London, Canada) and Claire Keun Sun Park (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A whole breast 3D ultrasound imaging system involves a wearable adapter subassembly, a compression plate subassembly releasably mountable on the wearable adapter subassembly and a motor plate subassembly releasably mountable on the compression plate subassembly so that the compression plate subassembly is betwee...