US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 13 for "Supine breast CT scanner" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,758, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Supine breast CT scanner" was invented by Ke Sheng (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cone beam CT scanner comprises a receiving section configured to receive a breast of the subject whilst in the supine position, a radiation imaging section comprising an x-ray tube and a detector which face each other and have the receiving section interposed therebetween, and a drive unit operable to move the receiving section to a position suitable for imaging the breast of the subject. A method for breast radiography is also discl...