US Patent Issued to Elekta on July 28 for "Optical surface tracking camera placement for radiotherapy" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,302, issued on July 28, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Optical surface tracking camera placement for radiotherapy" was invented by Kamil Kaminski (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy device and a method for imaging a subject using a radiotherapy device are provided. The radiotherapy device comprises a rotatable gantry, a support surface and a plurality of cameras. The rotatable gantry comprises a front, a rear and a bore. The support surface is moveable into the bore from a side of the radiotherapy device corresponding to the front of the rotatable gantry. The plurality of came...