ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,310, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Mammography apparatus" was invented by Kohei Gemma (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeyasu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Sayaka Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mammography apparatus includes an imaging table; a radiation source; a stand; the compression plate including a bottom plate that compresses the breast and side plates provided on at least two locations of a subject side and a stand side of the bottom plate; and a projector that projects an image toward the compression plate and the imaging table, in which in a case where an intersection between an im...