ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,586, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Auto-focus tool for multimodality image review" was invented by Herschel A. Solis (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Calvin J. Wong (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for an auto-focus tool for multimodality image review. In aspects, an image review system may provide for the display of a set of medical images representing one or more imaging modalities. The system may also provide an auto-focus tool that may be used during the review of the set of medical images. After receiving an instruc...