ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,725, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Patient positioning for radiotherapy treatment" was invented by Colin Winfield (Crawley, Great Britain), Johan Tegin (Crawley, Great Britain) and Ana Folgueras (Cawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of positioning a patient for radio-therapy treatment using a radiotherapy device. The method comprises determining an identity of a treatment beam that is to be used to treat the patient, determining an offset between a reference location and an isocentre location for the identified treatment beam that is to be used t...