ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,285, issued on March 17.

"System of filmless real-time quality assurance for beam alignment for radiosurgery systems" was invented by Xiaodong Wu (North Miami Beach, Fla.), Benjamin Pomper (Hollywood, Fla.) and Mark Pomper (Miami Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a system for providing accurate image-guided localization of a radiation target using digital image acquisition with real time data analysis utilizing a radiation device, directing a beam of radiation through a sample reflecting onto a film screen and reflecting an image from the film screen onto a mirror that will project the image from th...