ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,733, issued on March 3, was assigned to RefleXion Medical Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Methods for optimizing treatment time and plan quality for radiotherapy" was invented by Aleksei Privalikhin (Sosnovy Bor, Russia), Yevgen Voronenko (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter Demetri Olcott (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a graphical user interface that receives a user-specified treatment time value and displays the resultant dose distributions to a target region and/or organs-at-risk (OARs). The dose distributions are depicted as dose volume histograms (DVHs). The user-specified treatment time value may be adj...