ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,605, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).
"System for imaging a patient breast" was invented by Kenneth F. DeFreitas (Patterson, N.Y.) and Ian Shaw (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-modality cancer screening and diagnosis system is provided that allows cancer screening and diagnosis of a patient using at least two different and sequential three-dimensional imaging techniques without patient repositioning. The system includes a first three-dimensional image acquisition device, a second three-dimensional image acquisition device having a probe with a transmitter mounted th...