ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,553, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Optimised tracking of a region of a patient's body" was invented by Abdul Sayeed (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical device for tracking movement of a region of a patient's body. The region has a range of motion, for example a range of respiratory motion. The device comprises a controller configured to determine a motion of the region based on one or more initial images depicting at least part of the region. The controller is further configured to predict, based on the determined motion, a motion event time ...