US Patent Issued to Elekta on May 13 for "Monitoring of system latency errors in radiotherapy for cancer treatment" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,197, issued on May 13, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Monitoring of system latency errors in radiotherapy for cancer treatment" was invented by Joshua Freedman (Crawley, Great Britain), Fabienne Lathuiliere (Outremont, Canada), Kevin John Brown (Crawley, Great Britain), David Roberts (Crawley, Great Britain) and Sebastien Tremblay (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and techniques are used for cancer treatment. An example control device may be configured to be communicatively coupled to a radiation source of a radiotherapy device and a position sensor of the radiot...