ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,867, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Einhoven, Netherlands).

"Selection of magnetic resonance imaging acquisitions for radiation therapy planning" was invented by Guillaume Julien Joseph Pizaine (Sartrouville, France) and Alexandre Jean Michel Popoff (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclose herein is a medical system (200, 400) where the execution of the machine executable instructions causes the computational system to: receive (300) one or more planning magnetic resonance images (106); receive (302) a radio therapy planning map from the analysis algorithm as output in response to inputting the one...