US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Aug. 18 for "Smart digital breast tomography image acquisition system and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,340, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Smart digital breast tomography image acquisition system and method" was invented by Laurence Vancamberg (Poissy, France), Razvan Iordache (Clamart, France) and Clement Jailin (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, an imaging system and method is provided for determining the need for generation of enhanced diagnostic images of a patient. The imaging system includes a radiation source operable at to emit radiation at multiple energy levels, a detector alignable with the radiation source...