US Patent Issued to DOBI Global on Sept. 16 for "Dual mode three-dimensional breast imaging device and method" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,755, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DOBI Global LLC.

"Dual mode three-dimensional breast imaging device and method" was invented by Ruowen Rong (Southborough, Mass.), Hongtao Wang (Hangzhou, China), Ye Wu (Hangzhou, China) and John G. Zhang (Southborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for dual mode imaging uses an ultrasonic detection device, a diffuse optical tomography (DOT) detection device for imaging a breast. The DOT detection device is configured to detect changes of tissue blood oxygen. A host machine in communication with the ultrasonic detection device and the DOT detection device is used...