US Patent Issued to Hologic on Oct. 21 for "Imaging with curved compression elements" (Massachusetts, Delaware, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,843, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Imaging with curved compression elements" was invented by Timothy R. Stango (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Jay A. Stein (Boston), Biao Chen (Newark, Del.) and Christopher Ruth (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curved compression element, such as a breast compression paddle, and imaging systems and methods for use with curved compression elements. A system may include a radiation source, a detector, and a curved compression element. Operations are performed that include receiving image data from the detector; accessing a correction map for the at least on...