ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,752, issued on March 17, was assigned to ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"Microwave breast cancer screening system" was invented by Ibrahim Akduman (Istanbul), Tuba Yilmaz Abdolsaheb (Istanbul) and Aleksandar Janjic (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave-based breast cancer screening and early diagnostics imaging system is provided. The microwave-based breast cancer screening and early diagnostics imaging system uses mild compression to electromagnetically homogenize the heterogeneous breast media or, to some degree, decrease the breast dimension to 2D. The device is capable of providing multi-angle examinatio...