US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Dec. 9 for "Biopsy positioner for mammography imaging system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,950, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Biopsy positioner for mammography imaging system" was invented by Mathieu Ledan (Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole, France), Renaud Lecoeur (Chamboi, France), Ayoub Denguir (Chaville, France) and Thierry Bayle (Ponthevrard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a medical imaging system includes a gantry having a radiation source, a detector adapted to receive radiation emitted from the radiation source to generate image data and defining a compression surface, a first support structure an...