ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,290, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Elekta (Shanghai) Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Predictive maintenance of dynamic leaf guide based on deep learning" was invented by Shufei Chen (Shanghai) and Jie Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting and diagnosing faults in a radiotherapy system, such as a fault related to a dynamic leaf guide (DLG), are discussed. An exemplary predictive maintenance system includes a processor configured to receive machine data indicative of configuration and operation of a DLG in a target radiotherapy machine, apply a trained deep learning model to the received ma...