ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,365, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SUPERACCURACY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Intelligent plan optimization method and system" was invented by Liqin Hu (Nanjing, China), Dong Wang (Nanjing, China), Yang Yuan (Nanjing, China) and Jing Jia (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for intelligent plan optimization. The method may include: obtaining a sample scan image, one or more sample contour images, and sample dose data by resampling a scan image, a contour image, and dose data at a same resolution; obtaining a weighted image by the one or more sample contour images; obtaining a sam...