ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,366, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Breast fixation element" was invented by Julia Wicklein (Erlangen, Germany), Madeleine Hertel (Forchheim, Germany), Magdalena Herbst (Erlangen, Germany), Zhenzhen Jiang (Erlangen, Germany) and Steffen Kappler (Effeltrich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a breast fixation element for a mammography system having a flat elastic surface element including a fastening element for fixing the breast to a support surface of the mammography system, wherein a shape of the breast fixati...