ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,578, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ion Beam Applications (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium).

"Computer implemented method for reducing the risk of interrupting an irradiation treatment session due to a deviation from a planned value of an operating parameter of a particle accelerating system" was invented by Rudi Labarbe (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium), Lucian Hotoiu (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium) and Arnaud Pin (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for optimizing tolerance values of operating parameters of a particle accelerating system allowing a plurality of beamlets of particles accelerate...