US Patent Issued to IntraOp Medical on Sept. 23 for "Methods and systems for using and controlling higher dose rate ionizing radiation in short time intervals" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,116, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IntraOp Medical Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for using and controlling higher dose rate ionizing radiation in short time intervals" was invented by Kenneth W. Brooks (Windermere, Fla.), James A. Nelson (Newark, Calif.), Derek T. DeScioli (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher J. Patane (San Mateo, Calif.) and Donald A. Goer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides strategies to use and control the delivery of ionizing radiation to carry out therapeutic and industrial irradiation treatments. The present invention uses partial pulse control, c...