US Patent Issued to Elekta on June 16 for "Method of identifying an isocenter" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,034, issued on June 16, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Method of identifying an isocenter" was invented by Antonio Cossu (Crawley, Great Britain), Roberto Anselmi (Crawley, Great Britain) and Antonio Giovanni Vescovi (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is herein provided a method of identifying an isocentre of a radiotherapy apparatus. The method includes capturing illumination of respective dummy point images at rotational positions of a component of the radiotherapy apparatus at an image capture device mounted on the radiotherapy apparatus and deriving the isocentre from the captured...