US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for facilitating optimizing and administering an energy therapy treatment plan" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,284, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for facilitating optimizing and administering an energy therapy treatment plan" was invented by Petri Hirvonen (Espoo, Finland) and Matti Ropo (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit presents, via a user interface, linear energy transfer information that corresponds to optimizing an energy therapy treatment plan (such as a proton therapy treatment plan). Upon detecting certain user input, the control circuit can respond by accessing a precomputed influence matrix to provide corresponding...