US Patent Issued to Hologic on June 17 for "System and method for continuous calibration of X-ray scans" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,563, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"System and method for continuous calibration of X-ray scans" was invented by Thomas Kelly (Woburn, Mass.), Kevin Wilson (Acton, Mass.), Mark Guetersloh (Bedford, Mass.) and Wei Wang (Wellesley Hills, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry ("DXA") system includes an x-ray source assembly comprising a source carriage to move the x-ray source assembly along a scan path, the scan path comprising an active scan portion and a reference measurement portion. A detector assembly including a detector carriage to move the detector assemb...