US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on May 19 for "Neutron capture therapy apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,543, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Neutron capture therapy apparatus" was invented by Tatsuo Baba (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neutron capture therapy apparatus includes a neutron ray irradiation unit that irradiates an irradiation target with a neutron ray, a drug injection unit that injects a drug to the irradiation target, and a posture change unit that changes a posture of the irradiation target. The neutron ray irradiation unit performs first irradiation for irradiating the irradiation target with the neutron ray in a first incident direction, and performs second i...