US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Dec. 23 for "Measuring device, measuring method, measuring system, and radiation therapy system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,548, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Measuring device, measuring method, measuring system, and radiation therapy system" was invented by Tetsuya Mukawa (Yokosuka, Japan) and Hiroki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring device includes an ionization chamber where air is contained and a measurement value relating to radiation including a neutron ray and a gamma ray is measured, a detector that detects a detection value relating to the neutron ray, and a controller that calculates a dose of the gamma ray based on the measurement value measured in the ionization chambe...