US Patent Issued to Hologic on Nov. 3 for "Techniques for patient positioning quality assurance prior to mammographic image acquisition" (Pennsylvania, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,531, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Techniques for patient positioning quality assurance prior to mammographic image acquisition" was invented by Brad Michael Keller (Middletown, Del.) and Zhenxue Jing (Chadds Ford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for patient positioning quality assurance prior to mammographic image acquisition are described. A system may include an x-ray source configured to expose human tissue to radiation. An x-ray detector module may be configured to detect the radiation and generate a pre-diagnostic image of the human tissue. A position analysis module may be c...