US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on March 24 for "Setup for scout scans in a radiation therapy system" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,368, issued on March 24, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Setup for scout scans in a radiation therapy system" was invented by Sevelin Stanchev (Las Vegas) and Stephen Thompson (Pacific Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a radiation therapy system comprises: causing a graphical representation of a movable support couch of the X-ray imaging system to be displayed, wherein the graphical representation includes one or more reference markers that each correspond to a respective physical feature of the movable support couch; receiving a first user input that includes a first positio...