US Patent Issued to University of Manitoba on Sept. 1 for "Integrated microwave-ultrasound breast imaging system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,595, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Integrated microwave-ultrasound breast imaging system" was invented by Joe LoVetri (Winnipeg, Canada), Hannah Claire Fogel (Winnipeg, Canada) and Mohammad Asefi (Grande Pointe, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel, integrated dual-modal breast imaging system that requires minimal or no movement of the breast between scans. A static receptacle holds the breast or other target object still. An acoustic imaging fixture with acoustic transducers, and an electromagnetic imaging chamber with electromagnetic antennae, each perform imaging of the tar...