US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on June 2 for "Setup for treatment planning scans in a radiation therapy system" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,991, issued on June 2, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland).

"Setup for treatment planning scans in a radiation therapy system" was invented by Sevelin Stanchev (Las Vegas) and Stephen Thompson (Pacific Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a radiation treatment system includes: a treatment-delivering X-ray source configured to rotate about an isocenter of the radiation treatment system and direct treatment X-rays to a target volume; an imaging X-ray source configured to rotate about the isocenter of the radiation treatment system and direct imaging X-rays to a target region that incl...