ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,236, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).
"Breast biopsy immobilization device for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Lonie Salkowski (Middleton, Wis.), Samuel Herzog (Kenosha, Wis.), Emma Brower (Savage, Minn.), Helen Treankler (Sobieski, Wis.), Gabrielle Ibrahim (Minneapolis), Claire Swartz (Kenosha, Wis.), Cameron Ashford (Hudson, Wis.), Meghan Horan (Woodbury, Minn.), Kennedy Kruse (Village of Lakewood, Ill.) and Eleanor Steger (Winnetka, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MRI breast stabilization device optimizes the compression and immobilization of the breast dur...