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Alan Rego — 28 Patents

HOHologic: 24 patents #16 of 450Top 4%
TMTrex Medical: 2 patents #3 of 17Top 20%
Marlborough, MA: #42 of 796 inventorsTop 6%
Massachusetts: #3,526 of 88,656 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Alan Rego has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Hologic. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2025. Alan Rego ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Alan Rego in Marlborough, MA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12502149 Breast compression and imaging systems and methods Shawn C. St. Pierre, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Joseph Vartolone, Timothy L. Wells 2025-12-23
12295771 Systems and methods for measuring deflection of foam breast compression paddle Baorui Ren, Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Christopher Ruth, Andrew P. Smith, Zhenxue Jing +1 more 2025-05-13
12295759 Horizontally-displaceable foam breast compression paddle Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Jay A. Stein 2025-05-13
12268534 Compression arm devices and methods Kenneth F. DeFreitas 2025-04-08
12268535 Light assemblies and methods for mammography and tomosynthesis imaging systems Timothy N. Wells, Juliette BUCCILLI, Joseph Vartolone 2025-04-08
12150800 Systems and methods for guiding a patient during imaging procedures John W. Robinson, Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Adrian HUNSDON, Rachel CHANDLER, Ashwini Kshirsagar +1 more 2024-11-26 $85,809,000
12127864 Membrane-based breast compression systems Joseph Vartolone 2024-10-29 $46,380,000
12127873 Heating systems and methods for heating a breast support platform preliminary class Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Tarpit Patel, Danielle Niremberg, Douglas Myers, Shusheng He 2024-10-29 $46,380,000
12121376 Systems and methods for applying force to breasts for imaging Andrew P. Smith, David WOLFF, Kenneth F. DeFreitas 2024-10-22 $17,668,000
12059279 Breast compression paddle utilizing foam Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Zhenxue Jing, Jay A. Stein, Timothy N. Wells +1 more 2024-08-13 $18,955,000
11998371 Breast compression and imaging systems and methods Shawn C. St. Pierre, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Joseph Vartolone, Timothy N. Wells 2024-06-04 $37,176,000
11890120 Compression arm devices and methods Kenneth F. DeFreitas 2024-02-06 $37,170,000
11832783 Systems and methods for pivoting compression paddles Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Thomas W. DeYoung, Jeffrey Harold Paige, Baorui Ren, Jay A. Stein +1 more 2023-12-05 $17,034,000
11759153 Heating systems and methods for heating a breast support platform Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Tarpit Patel, Danielle Niremberg 2023-09-19 $42,771,000
11751824 Breast compression paddle utilizing foam Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Zhenxue Jing, Jay A. Stein, Diane CONLIN +1 more 2023-09-12 $42,076,000
11737717 Systems and methods for guiding a patient during imaging procedures John W. Robinson, Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Adrian HUNSDON, Rachel CHANDLER, Ashwini Kshirsagar +1 more 2023-08-29 $83,877,000
11701068 Breast compression and imaging systems and methods Shawn C. St. Pierre, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Joseph Vartolone, Timothy N. Wells 2023-07-18 $22,913,000
11622736 Horizontally-displaceable foam breast compression paddle Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Jay A. Stein, Christian Dunne, Christine JANSSEN 2023-04-11 $52,490,000
11596368 Breast compression paddles utilizing pivoting foam elements Jay A. Stein, Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Brad Michael KELLER, Christine JANSSEN 2023-03-07 $104,271,000
11426132 Breast compression paddle utilizing foam Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Christine JANSSEN, Zhenxue Jing, Jay A. Stein +3 more 2022-08-30 $103,194,000
11364000 Systems and methods for pivoting compression paddles Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Thomas W. DeYoung, Jeffrey Harold Paige, Baorui Ren, Jay A. Stein +1 more 2022-06-21 $50,424,000
11357456 Breast compression and imaging systems and methods Shawn C. St. Pierre, Richard Gladwin Edwards, Joseph Vartolone, Timothy N. Wells 2022-06-14 $100,355,000
11350891 Compression arm devices and methods Kenneth F. DeFreitas 2022-06-07 $111,124,000
11033242 Heating systems and methods for heating a breast support platform Kenneth F. DeFreitas, Douglas Myers, Shusheng He, Tarpit Patel, Danielle Niremberg 2021-06-15 $129,217,000
6587578 Dynamic-functional imaging of biological objects using a non-rigid object holder Eduard E. Godik, Ivan Masyukov 2003-07-01