ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,845, issued on March 24, was assigned to RefleXion Medical Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).
"Methods for tumor tracking" was invented by Rostem Bassalow (Lacey, Wash.) and George Andrew Zdasiuk (Portola Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for determining the location of a moving target region (e.g., a tumor) based on the location of the center of its range of motion and the location of a target region surrogate, during a radiotherapy treatment session or a quality assurance (QA) session. These methods comprise characterizing the motion range of the target region, calculating the location of the center o...