US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 20 for "Multileaf collimator and radiation therapy device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,341, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo) and MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multileaf collimator and radiation therapy device" was invented by Koki Yoshida (Tokyo), Takashi Ishizuka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Arai (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to obtain a position of each leaf with high accuracy by a configuration that is easy to be manufactured in a multileaf collimator. The multileaf collimator includes a plurality of leaves, and a reflection surface that reflects light emitted from a light source is formed on a peripheral end...