ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,294, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Beam shaping apparatus" was invented by Mark Furth (Crawley, Great Britain), Martin Broad (Crawley, Great Britain), Antonio Cossu (Crawley, Great Britain) and Roberto Anselmi (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a radiation head for a radiotherapy device. The radiation head comprises a source of radiation configured to emit a beam of radiation; and beam shaping device for collimating the beam of radiation. The beam shaping device comprises a multi-leaf collimator; and a diaphragm positioned between the source and the mul...