US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 15 for "Mammography apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,892, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mammography apparatus" was invented by Takashi Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mammography apparatus includes an imaging table on which a breast of a subject is placed and in which a detector that detects radiation transmitted through the breast is housed, and a processor, in which a first grid and a second grid that are scattered ray removal grids, which are able to remove scattered rays generated by the radiation scattering in the breast, and that are switchable between an imaging position and a retreat position according to imaging in each ...