US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on March 24 for "Workflow management system, radiotherapy system, and workflow management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,841, issued on March 24, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Workflow management system, radiotherapy system, and workflow management method" was invented by Takahiro Yamada (Tokyo), Yusuke Fujii (Tokyo), Toru Umekawa (Tokyo), Yoshihiko Nagamine (Tokyo) and Takao Kidani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time required for online adaptive treatment is reduced with a workflow management system that executes a plurality of processes for radiotherapy according to a predetermined workflow. The plurality of processes include at least a first process and a second process, and the workflow management system executes the f...