US Patent Issued to Hologic on July 28 for "Patient shield for an x-ray imaging system and methods of the same" (Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,826, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Patient shield for an x-ray imaging system and methods of the same" was invented by Kenneth F. DeFreitas (Patterson, N.Y.), Baorui Ren (Andover, Mass.), Brent L. Burchfield (Powell, Ohio) and Zhenxue Jing (Chadds Ford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system (100) includes a gantry (126) and a compression arm assembly (104). The compression arm assembly (104) including a support arm (122) supporting a compression paddle (108), a platform (106), and an x-ray receptor (114). An x-ray tube head (124) includes an x-ray source (120). A patient shield ...