ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,179, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Detection device for determining a position of a phantom" was invented by Kevin Brown (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device for a radiotherapy apparatus is described. The detection device comprises an arrangement of detectors comprising a plurality of radiation detectors, each detector arranged and configured to detect a projection of a feature of a phantom at the respective detector when a beam of radiation is applied to the phantom, and output a measurement value based on the detected projection. The detection device f...