US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 30 for "Imaging apparatus, imaging system, control method, and control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,847, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, imaging system, control method, and control program" was invented by Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Osawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Lisako Nobuyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus including: an imaging table having an imaging surface on which at least one marker is disposed; a compression member for putting a breast disposed on the imaging surface into a compressed state; and an ultrasound probe that obtains an ultrasound image of the breast put into the compressed state by the compression member."

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