US Patent Issued to Shabbir Bakir Bambot on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for breast imaging" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,026, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Shabbir Bakir Bambot (West Hills, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for breast imaging" was invented by Shabbir Bakir Bambot (West Hills, Calif.), James M. Carver (Cottage Grove, Ore.) and Joshua Lee (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve breast mammography imagery via use of a digital "slot scanning" imaging system that accommodates the changing thickness of the breast from the chest wall to the nipple by scanning the breast from the chest outward to the nipple or vice versa instead of the side-to-side methodology and using Automatic Exposure Control or AEC parameters optimize...