US Patent Issued to Elekta on March 31 for "Timing-based methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for a gated linear accelerator" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,260, issued on March 31, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Timing-based methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for a gated linear accelerator" was invented by Christopher Knox (Crawley, Great Britain), Joshua Freedman (Crawley, Great Britain), Kevin John Brown (Crawley, Great Britain) and David Roberts (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Timing-based methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for a gated linear accelerator include synchronising a local clock of the linear accelerator with a clock of a patient monitoring system, determining latencies within one or more MR-gated ra...