US Patent Issued to Elekta on July 7 for "Composite field sequencing (CFS) for proton beam therapy" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,222, issued on July 7, was assigned to Elekta Inc. (Atlanta).

"Composite field sequencing (CFS) for proton beam therapy" was invented by Raymond Philip Dalfsen (Adelaide, Australia) and Louis Arunus Genet (Newcastle, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques may be adapted for use in composite field sequencing for proton therapy. A technique may include generating a proton therapy plan in a treatment planning system, the proton therapy plan including a plurality of static fields. The technique may include creating a single data file of a single dynamic field representing the plurality of static fields. The single ...