ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,840, issued on March 24, was assigned to Elekta Inc. (Atlanta).
"System and method for radiation treatment planning" was invented by Peter Voet (Atlanta), Chunhua Men (Atlanta) and Spencer Marshall (Brandon, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for radiation treatment planning for delivering radiation therapy by a radiotherapy system, the method comprising: receiving a reference objective, the reference objective representing a goal to be achieved by the radiotherapy system; performing an optimisation procedure, according to the received reference objective, to determine a set of parameters, the set of parameters relating to...