US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 6 for "Triggered treatment systems and methods" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,130, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.) and SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Triggered treatment systems and methods" was invented by Christel Smith (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Corey Zankowski (San Jose, Calif.), Jan Hein Timmer (Los Altos, Calif.), Wolfgang Kaissl (Wil, Switzerland), Deepak Khuntia (Los Altos, Calif.), Eric Abel (San Jose, Calif.), Josh Star-Lack (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Camille Noel (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a radiation therapy method can include loading a planning image of a target in a human. In add...