ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,492, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Raysearch Laboratories AB (publ) (Stockholm).
"Optimization of thermoradiotherapy treatment" was invented by Erik Traneus (Uppsala, Sweden), Albin Fredriksson (Stockholm), Kjell Eriksson (Balsta, Sweden) and Jakob Oden (Sollentuna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined set of treatment plans including radiation treatment and hyperthermia treatment may be optimized either by co-optimizing both plans together or by optimizing one of the plans and then optimizing the other taking into account the predicted effect of the first optimized plan."
The patent was filed on April 13, 2022, under...