US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Oct. 27 for "Method and apparatus for stereotactic body radiation treatment planning and administration" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,574, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for stereotactic body radiation treatment planning and administration" was invented by Heini Hyvonen (Helsinki), Jarkko Y. Peltola (Tuusula, Finland), Christopher Boylan (Helsinki) and Emmi Ruokokoski (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit presents to a user an automatic radiation treatment plan optimizer that provides pre-existing accuracy input parameters and that includes an opportunity to select a stereotactic body radiation treatment planning mode in addition to other treatment plann...