US Patent Issued to Hologic on Nov. 18 for "System and method for navigating a tomosynthesis stack including automatic focusing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,992, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"System and method for navigating a tomosynthesis stack including automatic focusing" was invented by Jin-Long Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Haili Chui (Fremont, Calif.), Kevin Kreeger (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiangwei Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for reviewing a tomosynthesis image data set comprising volumetric image data of a breast, the method comprising, in one embodiment, causing an image or a series of images from the data set to be displayed on a display monitor and selecting or indicating through a user interf...