ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,459, issued on April 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (Toronto).

"Device, system and process for robotic radiobiology" was invented by David A. Jaffray (Etobicoke, Canada), Bradly G. Wouters (Toronto), Alexander Ralph Lino Jaffray (Etobicoke, Canada) and Ryan Steven Elliott (Cobourg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high throughput automated assay platform for temporal image processing of cell growth and colony formation before and after radiation therapy treatments. The platform is designed to compute and monitor a therapeutic protocol by measuring sensitivity of cell growth to treatment based on a radiation thera...