US Patent Issued to DIRex Korea on Oct. 7 for "Self-shielding and movable gantry and breast computed tomography apparatus with the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,557, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DIRex Korea Co. Ltd. (Goyang-si, South Korea).

"Self-shielding and movable gantry and breast computed tomography apparatus with the same" was invented by Kichang Song (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a self-shielding and movable gantry and a breast computed tomography apparatus with the same, in particular, in which the BCT can be freely installed and moved through its own X-ray shielding, which enables examinations with no physical or clinical limitations through a full three-dimensional isotropic image of a breast without compressing the breast, does not requi...