US Patent Issued to Hologic on March 4 for "System and method for dual energy and/or contrast enhanced breast imaging for screening, diagnosis and biopsy" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,471, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"System and method for dual energy and/or contrast enhanced breast imaging for screening, diagnosis and biopsy" was invented by Andrew P. Smith (Lexington, Mass.), Jay A. Stein (Boston), Zhenxue Jing (Chadds Ford, Pa.), Baorui Ren (Andover, Mass.), Loren Niklason (N Tetonia, Idaho), Christopher Ruth (Boxford, Mass.) and Ian Shaw (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for x-ray imaging a patient's breast in combinations of dual-energy, single-energy, mammography and tomosynthesis modes that facilitate screening for and diagno...