US Patent Issued to Elekta on June 23 for "Devices and methods for delivering non-coplanar radiotherapy" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,527, issued on June 23, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Devices and methods for delivering non-coplanar radiotherapy" was invented by Kristian Wiberg (Crawley, Great Britain) and Per Carlsson (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy apparatus is described. The radiotherapy apparatus comprises a radiation source, a beam shaping apparatus, a beam receiving apparatus, and a controller configured to control the beam shaping apparatus. The radiation source is configured to deliver radiation in each of a coplanar configuration and at least one non-coplanar configuration. The beam shaping ...