US Patent Issued to KINKI UNIVERSITY, Canon Medical Systems on March 24 for "Mammography apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,369, issued on March 24, was assigned to KINKI UNIVERSITY (Higashiosaka, Japan) and Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Mammography apparatus" was invented by Yoshiyuki Asai (Osakasayama, Japan), Mika Yamamuro (Osakasayama, Japan), Haruki Iwai (Otawara, Japan), Naoko Kuratomi (Sakura, Japan), Yoshimasa Kobayashi (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Rie Ikezaki (Sakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a mammography apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire, as information on preliminary X-ray imaging for a breast of a subject, first information includi...