US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for driving leaves in a multi-leaf collimator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,858, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for driving leaves in a multi-leaf collimator" was invented by Bin Song (Shanghai), Kun Yang (Shanghai) and Jian Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MLC may include a plurality of leaves configured to shape a radiation field, and a plurality of driving assemblies each of which is configured to drive one of the plurality of leaves to a desired target position for shaping the radiation field. The driving assembly associated with a leaf may include a driving component configured to drive the leaf toward a desi...