US Patent Issued to Hologic on July 21 for "Systems methods and computer program products for selectively modifying X-ray images of tissue specimens" (Connecticut, Delaware, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,565, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Systems methods and computer program products for selectively modifying X-ray images of tissue specimens" was invented by Biao Chen (Newark, Del.), Kenneth F. Defreitas (Patterson, N.Y.) and Shawn Hochstetler (Sandy Hook, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "X-ray images generated by a biopsy tissue handling apparatus are selectively modified to emphasize areas of interest and deemphasize or eliminate image areas that are distracting, impair view attention and/or contribute to eye fatigue, An image processor executes image masks based on a geometric configura...