ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,633, issued on April 29, was assigned to Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Device and a method for monitoring a treatment of a body part of a patient with particles" was invented by Joao Seco (Heidelberg, Germany), Paulo Jorge Magalhaes Martins (Heidelberg, Germany) and Riccardo Dal Bello (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (110) and a method for monitoring a treatment of a body part (112) of a patient (114) with a beam (116) comprising particles (118) are disclosed. Herein, the device (110) comprises-a beam delivering unit (120) designated for delivering a beam (116) comprising particle...