US Patent Issued to Elekta on March 31 for "Bore tube of a radiotherapy device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,877, issued on March 31, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Bore tube of a radiotherapy device" was invented by Henrik Alexis (Crawley, Great Britain), Thomas Pihl (Crawley, Great Britain), Erik Carlander (Crawley, Great Britain) and Eldered Kjell (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy device may comprise a rotatable gantry and a bore tube defining a bore. The bore tube may comprise a first section formed of a first material and a second section formed of a second material. The first section may be configured to minimally attenuate an imaging beam, while the second section may be co...