ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,380, issued on July 29, was assigned to Elekta Instrument AB (Stockholm).
"Methods for adaptive radiotherapy" was invented by Jens Olof Sjolund (Uppsala, Sweden) and Niklas Gunnarsson (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for adaptive radiotherapy. There is provided a method for adaptive radiotherapy treatment of a patient comprising receiving a sequence of measurement data of the treatment, the measurements being captured at different time points, mapping measurement data to a representation of a treatment geometry at the time point...