US Patent Issued to Hologic on June 10 for "Tomosynthesis-guided biopsy in prone" (Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,707, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Tomosynthesis-guided biopsy in prone" was invented by Kenneth F. DeFreitas (Patterson, N.Y.), Ian Shaw (Swampscott, Mass.) and John Laviola (Madison, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A station for tomotactic-guided biopsy in prone includes a table with an aperture, and a tomosynthesis imaging system. A biopsy gun can be mounted on a stage arm assembly disposed below the table. The imaging system and stage arm assembly can be independently rotated and linearly repositioned in one or more dimensions, thereby allowing the tomotactic scan axis to be located r...