ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,764, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).
"Controller for imaging apparatus" was invented by Suzuko Hisata (Marlborough, Mass.), Mallory Anne Berko (Marlborough, Mass.), Jonathan Paul Girgenti (New Milford, Conn.) and Timothy Wells (Manchester, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has an upright gantry. A tube arm assembly and a compression arm assembly are rotatably coupled to the gantry. The tube arm assembly independently rotates relative to the compression arm assembly. A controller disposed on the gantry is operably connected to at least one of the tube arm assembly and the compressio...