US Patent Issued to Elekta on March 31 for "Method to optimally splitting arcs in modulated arc therapy (MAT) plans" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,259, issued on March 31, was assigned to Elekta Inc. (Atlanta).

"Method to optimally splitting arcs in modulated arc therapy (MAT) plans" was invented by Vaitheeswaran Ranganathan (Bangalore, India), Natarajan Ramar (Bangalore, India) and Bojarajan Perumal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable medium (26) stores instructions executable by at least one electronic processor (20) to perform a method (100, 200) of identifying possible arc segments for removal in a modulated arc therapy plan. The method includes: iteratively optimizing a modulated arc therapy plan for an initial arc segment; ...