US Patent Issued to Elekta on May 12 for "Continuum radiotherapy treatment planning" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,093, issued on May 12, was assigned to Elekta AB (publ) (Stockholm).

"Continuum radiotherapy treatment planning" was invented by Jens Olof Sjolund (Uppsala, Sweden) and Carl Axel Hakan Nordstrom (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic radiotherapy treatment planning in a continuous space of computation. Example operations for generating treatment plan data for a radiotherapy treatment include: obtaining data for a radiotherapy treatment of a human subject; generating a set of radiation controls from the data for the radiotherapy treatment, with at least one of the radiation controls bein...