US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on March 24 for "Intelligent treatable sectors for radiation therapy plan generation" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,672, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Intelligent treatable sectors for radiation therapy plan generation" was invented by Heini Hyvonen (Helsinki), Mikko Hakala (Rajamaki, Finland), Ville Pietila (Helsinki) and Hannu Laaksonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for calculating radiation therapy treatment plan (RTTP) including a method that comprises monitoring, by a processor, a treatment plan optimizer computer model to identify a set of treatment plans, where the treatment plan optimizer computer model ingest...