US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on July 28 for "Method for making a heterogeneous breast phantom" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,832, issued on July 28, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for making a heterogeneous breast phantom" was invented by Gameel Saleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Budour Alfares (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Aljohara Aljabr (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Maryam Zainalabedin (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Munthreen Almozain (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterogeneous patient-based breast phantom that mimics the anatomy and properties of real breast tissues when screened with ionizing and nonionizing imaging modalities is described. The heterogeneous breast phantom includes a skin mim...