ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,461, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Treatment support system and treatment support device" was invented by Akihiro Ishikawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Masumi Kawai (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This treatment support system (100) is provided with an irradiation unit (10) for irradiating a medical agent (102) administered to a subject of a cancer subject (101) with therapeutic light in treatment for killing a cancer cell by irradiating the medical agent with the therapeutic light, a light detection unit (30) for detecting fluorescence excited by the therapeutic light, a control unit (51), and...