ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,988, issued on June 17, was assigned to CureRays Inc. (Atlanta).
"Apparatus and method for radiation therapy" was invented by Clayton Hess (Sacramento, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy system is configured to receive an open-field X-ray beam from a superficial radiotherapy machine and direct the beam through a grid module configured to spatially fractionate the open-field beam into a group of spaced-apart microbeams. A patient applicator defines an enclosed space having a patient support surface for supporting a target body part. A beam receiver of the patient applicator receives the group of microbeams directed a...