US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on April 29 for "Methods and systems for breast tomosynthesis" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,275, issued on April 29, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for breast tomosynthesis" was invented by Vincent Bismuth (Yvelines, France), Sylvain Bernard (Montigny le Bretonneux, France), Fanny Patoureaux (Yvelines, France), Yana Popova (Courbevoie, France), Jorge Corsino Espino (Paris), Xavier Mancardi (Yvelines, France) and Mathilde Ravier (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems are provided for non-uniform thickness and/or sampling of slabs of the breast to present DBT acquisitions. A method for generating a patient image as a set of slabs representing an imaged object, ...