US Patent Issued to Elekta on Aug. 5 for "Light detection apparatus and methods for a radiotherapy system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,291, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Light detection apparatus and methods for a radiotherapy system" was invented by David Roberts (Crawley, Great Britain) and John Allen (West Sussex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting Cherenkov radiation produced during radiotherapy. A radiotherapy system comprises a patient receiving space for receiving a patient, a therapeutic radiation source, and a light detector configured to detect Cherenkov radiation subsequent to the emission of therapeutic radiation. Optionally, the system may make use of a o...