US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on March 18 for "System and method for analyzing breast support environment" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,257, issued on March 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for analyzing breast support environment" was invented by Jerome Sutty (Verrieres le buisson, France), Laurence Vancamberg (Poissy, France) and Vincent Croulard (Magny en Vexin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, an imaging device or system, e.g., a mammography imaging system or device, includes a distance and location sensing system on the imaging system/e to provide accurate distance and position information from one or more sensing device(s) constitutin...