ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,582, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Mammography system and imaging method" was invented by Yu Zhang (Shanghai), Juan Feng (Shanghai) and Jie Niu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mammography system and a method for imaging at least part of a breast with the mammography system are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining pre-exposure images respectively corresponding to a plurality of phantoms by performing pre-exposure for each of the plurality of phantoms with a respective predetermined dosage, each phantom having its respective compression thickness and componen...