ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,855, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HOLOGIC INC. (Marlborough, Mass.).
"Digital imaging system and method" was invented by Raymond Jenoski (Boylston, Mass.) and Randall Marks (Marlborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing multi-plane viewing of a digital image of a subject matter which do not require viewing multiple images taken at multiple image planes. Pseudo-focus images are generated from a flattened, merged image of a three-dimensional subject matter. The merged image is generated by merging a plurality of images taken at different focal planes of the subject matter which form a throu...