US Patent Issued to EMPYREAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 21 for "Intensity and dose modulated radiosurgical needle system and method" (Tennessee, Florida, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,878, issued on July 21, was assigned to EMPYREAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Intensity and dose modulated radiosurgical needle system and method" was invented by Kalman Fishman (Boca Raton, Fla.), Dirk Bartkoski (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Jacob Scott (Gates Mills, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy device includes an electron source, a first beam corrector, a drift tube, a target with target material that when impacted by an electron beam generates Bremsstrahlung x-ray photons, and a radiosurgical needle. The radiosurgical needle has an elongated radiopaque needle body with a lumen and a pointed tip for pier...