ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,565, issued on April 21, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Delivery machine limitation guided radiation therapy treatment planning" was invented by Roni Hytonen (Espoo, Finland), Jari Lindberg (Helsinki), Perttu Niemela (Espoo, Finland), Francisco Roberto Cassetta Junior (Dietikon, Switzerland) and Reynald Vanderstraeten (Ukkel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for planning a radiation therapy treatment to be performed by a radiation therapy machine includes at least one processor and a memory storing computer executable instructions. The at least one processor is confi...