ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,406, issued on April 1, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Collision avoidance in radiotherapy" was invented by Colin Winfield (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for avoiding collisions between a subject and a radiotherapy device are provided. At a first time point, first location information for the subject is measured using a first sensor and a second sensor. A spatial profile of the subject is determined based on the first location information. At a second time point, second location information for the subject is measured using the first sens...