US Patent Issued to Hologic on May 13 for "Systems and methods for measuring deflection of foam breast compression paddle" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,771, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for measuring deflection of foam breast compression paddle" was invented by Baorui Ren (Marlborough, Mass.), Kenneth Defreitas (Marlborough, Mass.), Alan Rego (Marlborough, Mass.), Christopher Ruth (Marlborough, Mass.), Andrew P. Smith (Marlborough, Mass.), Zhenxue Jing (Marlborough, Mass.) and Jay A. Stein (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging a breast compressed with a foam paddle includes emitting an x-ray energy from an x-ray source towards the breast and the foam paddle having a plurality of upper marke...