US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 8 for "Imaging table, ultrasonography apparatus, mammography apparatus, and control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,854, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging table, ultrasonography apparatus, mammography apparatus, and control program" was invented by Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Lisako Nobuyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiji Tsubota (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeyasu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Sayaka Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to capture an ultrasound image from a contact surface of a breast in contact with an imaging table. There is provided an imaging table including: a space that is provided below a loading surface on which a breast is placed and is provided to dispose an ...